Usher News

Liverpool's Unity Theatre is delighted to announce the appointment of Matthew Linley as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.

?Liberty Hall Museum will usher in its popular holiday season with the debut of its much-anticipated Christmas tour, Deck the Halls: Fifty Years of Christmas Decorations, on Friday, November 28.

SiriusXM announced today that global music superstar Pitbull will sit down for an intimate Q&A session with an audience of SiriusXM listeners and fans for the SiriusXM 'Town Hall' series on Monday, November 24

As the landmark American musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF celebrates its 50th anniversary, Arena Stage is bringing the show to audiences new and old in production on the intimate and iconic Fichlander Stage. Arena's artistic director Molly Smith directs the production which features the original Jerome Robbins choreography adapted and restaged by Parker Esse. Jeffrey Walker of BroadwayWorld-DC caught up with actors Ann Arvia and Jonathan Hadary who play Golde and Tevye in the new production which is wowing audiences and dazzling critics each night. Hadary and Arvia make their Arena Stage debut performances in Bock, Harnick, Stein's musical masterpiece. This is part two: Jeffrey Walker's interview with Jonathan Hadary.

The 26th Annual Awards for Excellence in the Arts, held on Monday, November 3rd, at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, raised money for scholarships and celebrated talented artists and visionaries who came together in support of Theatre School students.

Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation presents its second season at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center -- Three Dog Night on Saturday, January 10 at 8 pm; The Four Tops on Saturday, February 21 at 8 pm; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on Friday, March 27 at 8 pm; The Muppet Movie Sing-a-Long on Saturday, May 16 at 2 pm and Dick Fox Doo Wop Extravaganza on Saturday, June 6 at 7 pm. This four concert season, and the additional attraction The Muppet Movie Sing-A-Long, is presented by the Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation and is a means of raising funds to support arts in the schools and maintain this new, state-of-the-art facility.

When Well-Strung, 'The Singing String Quartet,' agreed to be a part of BROADWAY & BEYOND, the premiere event in the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts' Walt Disney Theatre, they knew they needed to come up with something special. So, over the past week, the group put together a very special mash-up from Disney's most recent megahit.

The Washington, DC metro area is full of small risk taking theaters and one of the standouts in this crowd is Molotov Theatre Group. Self-proclaimed as "America's Second Oldest Theatre of Grand Guignol" this little in size, but big in execution theatre is probably the best in the Theatre of Grand Guignol niche.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College has announced its 2014-15 60th Anniversary World Dance series.

The following are highlights of The CW's Holiday episodes and specials

Today, in collaboration with global superstar and seven-time Grammy award-winner, Taylor Swift, American Express unveiled the American Express Unstaged Taylor Swift Blank Space Experience App giving fans everywhere a never-before-seen, 360? immersive music video experience for her new single, "Blank Space,"

On last night's TONIGHT SHOW, Jimmy and Nick Jonas competed against Jeff Daniels and Usher in a game of Pyramid.

Multi-platinum selling artists Chris Brown and Trey Songz announce their upcoming BETWEEN THE SHEETS TOUR kicking off in 2015.

?The New Victory Theater received the 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award today from First Lady Michelle Obama for the New Victory Usher Corps, the 42nd Street theater's creative youth development program for New York City teens. The New Victory Usher Corps, one of only 12 programs to receive the award this year, accepts the nation's highest honor for programs that excel in developing learning and life skills in young people through the arts.

Molotov Theatre Group's latest production, 'Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe,' by Eric Coble, opens tonight, November 6. Opening weekend features several additional Molotov activities to kick off the company's new Season of the Supernatural - including beer from Baltimore's Raven Beer brewery opening night and the prize-laden Hellraiser Fundraiser the following night, November 7.

The 44th season at Kumu Kahua Theatre continues with a world premiere of a new Susan Soon He Stanton play. Susan also wrote Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano' and The Art of Preservation, both of which also premiered at Kumu Kahua Theatre.

Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that it has obtained the domestic distribution rights for Max Joseph's (MTV's 'Catfish: The TV Show') feature film directorial debut, 'We Are Your Friends.' The film, from Working Title Films and Studiocanal, stars Zac Efron ('Neighbors'), Emily Ratajkowski ('Gone Girl') and Wes Bentley ('Interstellar,' 'The Hunger Games'). The announcement was made today by Greg Silverman, President, Creative Development and Worldwide Production, and Sue Kroll, President, Worldwide Marketing and International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

After a successful 18 show run in Folsom, CA, FreeFall Stage is taking the anti-trafficking production 'She Has a Name' (in its first U.S. Community Theatre Production) venues around California.

St. Regis Hotels & Resorts unveiled The Grand Tourista Scarf by Jason Wu for St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, inspired by the heart of today's grand tour - where East meets West - in Istanbul, Turkey. Celebrating the upcoming debut of The St. Regis Istanbul in February 2015, The Grand Tourista Scarf will be available in three exquisite color palettes and will retail for usd $195 at www.stregis.com/boutique and www.jasonwustudio.com, beginning in November 3rd 2014.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will feature renowned violinist Nicola Benedetti in 'Isle of the Dead,' a BNY Mellon Grand Classics subscription weekend on October 31-November 2.