Highlights of the 74th Season of the Marshall Artists Series include the Legendary Liza Minnelli, The Doobie Brothers, Broadway’s The Color Purple, Stomp, A Chorus Line and Comedy Central Star Daniel Tosh
HUNTINGTON-The Marshall Artists Series proudly announces its 2010 – 2011 season. Over the course of seventy four years, the Marshall Artists Series has been a gateway to the world of cultural entertainment in the Tri-State and at Marshall University. “The Marshall Artists Series 20010/2011 season will broaden your view of our world and through art: whether it be an …

Students from a new musical theatre class at Marshall University will present “A Chorus Line” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1 at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on the Huntington campus.
The class, “Musical Theatre Workshop,” was open to music or theatre majors and non-majors. It was taught by Bruce Rous, who divides his time at Marshall as adjunct professor for the departments of music and theatre and also serves as Director of Musical Theatre.
The performances are free and open to the public, but since …

Marshall University’s Organization of African Students will present a play, “An African Wedding,” at 7:45 p.m. Friday, April 23. The performance will take place in the Smith Hall room 154 on the Huntington campus and is free and open to the public.
“In addition to the intriguing story of love and marriage, this play will showcase the unique culture, rituals and traditions of pre-marriage and the marital ceremony of a young couple in Africa, strikingly different from our western culture and ceremony,” said Maurice Cooley, director of the Center for African …

The Marshall Artists Series is proud to present the Spring International Film Festival March 5 – 7 at the historic Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center in downtown Huntington. Six films from six different countries will play during the weekend festival, each one with a unique story to tell.
Academy Award nominee Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Belgium) shows how Burma became headline news across the globe when peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more …

Marshall University’s Department of Music and the MU Opera Theatre will present a program of “Gilbert & Sullivan Gems” Sunday, Feb. 14. It will take place at 3 p.m. in the Smith Recital Hall on Marshall’s Huntington campus.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved light operas have been among the most frequently performed stage works the world over since their introduction in 19th century England, according to Linda Dobbs, professor of voice at Marshall and director of the opera theatre.
“It has been some time since our last production, The Mikado, and I wanted …

There’s no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of CATS. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest running shows in Broadway’s history.