Usher News

RTT has announced the addition of Mairead Nesbitt to the cast of the inaugural live concert tour ROCKTOPIA: A Classical (R)evolution.

Theatre for a New Audience (Jeffrey Horowitz, Founding Artistic Director) presents director Arin Arbus's new staging of Thornton Wilder's tragicomic masterpiece The Skin of Our Teethtonight, February 14, through March 19 at Polonsky Shakespeare Center(262 Ashland Place), TFANA's state-of-the-art permanent home in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: SIGNIFICANT OTHER hits Broadway, while SWEENEY TODD and 'JOAN OF ARC' start tonight Off-Broadway!

Theatre for a New Audience has announced the performance schedule, cast and creative team for director Arin Arbus's new staging of Thornton Wilder's comic masterpiece The Skin of Our Teeth, the first major New York production since 1998.

RTT has announced the cast of the inaugural live concert tour ROCKTOPIA: A Classical (R)evolution.

Personal development coach and author, Sheri Riley, celebrated the release of her new book, Exponential Living, at a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Atlanta last night. Special guests included Usher and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.  

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) are pleased to present This Isn't Trash, the first New York exhibition of work by Herve Tullet, the wildly imaginative artist and children's book author, as part of the second annual Tilt Kids Festival.

CNN Political Commentator Van Jones explains how he feels women will play a role in bringing about change and shares the meaning of the 'Love Army.'

Opening March 3 for a limited run, Hart House Theatre is pleased to present a Canadian favourite, the quirky comedy 7 Stories. Directed by emergent talent, Rebecca Ballarin, and starring a cast of young professionals, 7 Stories promises to close the 2016/2017 Hart House Theatre Season on a high, comedic note.

The Pasadena Playhouse presents its first developmental production, under the theater's new play development program PlayWorks: Dotson Rader's GOD LOOKED AWAY starring Academy Award- and two-time Tony Award-winner Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) as 'Tennessee Williams' and co-starring two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Light (Transparent) as Williams' close friend 'Estelle' and Miles Gaston Villanueva (CBS's The Young and the Restless) as 'Baby.'

Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the eight composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company's fifth annual, critically acclaimed new works series, Frontiers - funded in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Charlotte Christmas Baxley's new book, I Still Have It All ($13.99, paperback, 9781498478939; $6.99, eBook, 9781498478946) is an emotional story of God's everlasting love and protection in the midst of life's obstacles that empowers you not to give up. I Still Have It All encourages readers that whatever life brings, choose to follow God's plan and seek to get to a place of great faith where there is true peace and forgiveness.

Wharton Center is thrilled to announce the inaugural live concert event ROCKTOPIA LIVE: A Classical (R)evolution. This groundbreaking live concert performance celebrates the fusion of classical music with classic rock. It features five world-class vocalists and five top rock musicians.

RTT is thrilled to announce the cast of the inaugural live concert tour ROCKTOPIA: A Classical (R)evolution.   ROCKTOPIA Co-Creators, vocalist and recording artist Rob Evan, a member of the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Trans- Siberian Orchestra; and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer, a national leader in the area of symphonic rock and world music fusion have collaborated to bring together a world class cast of vocalists and musicians.   ROCKTOPIA LIVE will debut at the King Center for the Performing Arts for one night only on Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale February 10 at Noon. Tickets may be purchased by visiting kingcenter.com or by calling the King Center ticket office at 321.242.2219.   Ticket office hours are Monday - Friday, Noon - 6pm & Saturday, Noon - 4pm.

The historic Cape Playhouse, American's oldest continually operating summer theatre, is thrilled to announce our creative teams for our upcoming 2017 Summer Season.

Wharton Center has announced the inaugural live concert event ROCKTOPIA LIVE: A Classical (R)evolution.

RTT is thrilled to announce the cast of the inaugural live concert tour ROCKTOPIA: A Classical (R)evolution.   ROCKTOPIA Co-Creators, vocalist and recording artist Rob Evan, a member of the multi-platinum-selling rock band, Trans- Siberian Orchestra; and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer, a national leader in the area of symphonic rock and world music fusion have collaborated to bring together a world class cast of vocalists and musicians. ROCKTOPIA LIVE will debut at the Aronoff Center's Procter & Gamble Hall for one night only on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 8:00 PM.  

Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), in association with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has announced SPILL, written and directed by Leigh Fondakowski (The Laramie Project, The People's Temple).

This just in! HAMILTON producer Jeffrey Seller announced that the Broadway production will double the number of $10 seats available for each performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St. in NYC) starting January 31, 2017.

SJ Presents Inc., a leading NY based concert promotion and lifestyle entertainment company, announced today that eleven-time Grammy nominated R&B superstar, Charlie Wilson, has added an additional tour date to his "In It To Win It" national tour stopping at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, with special guests Fantasia and Johnny Gill.