Theatre: The Belle of Amherst Comes to Life
The Filming Station | Begins November 6 by Jim Reylan Emily Dickinson produced some 1800 poems in manuscript; only seven were published during her lifetime. She was a pure, untethered artist with never...
View ArticleWin a pair of tickets to Nashville Rep’s “A Christmas Story” winner announced...
Buy your ticket now or enter to win a pair for a show of your choice (depending on availability). Fill out my Wufoo form! There are tons of Wufoo features to help make your forms awesome. The post Win...
View ArticleStudio Tenn’s It’s a Wonderful Life Through December 20
All theatre is ephemeral by its nature. But for Studio Tenn, the cyclical building and unbuilding of a show includes not only the set, but also much of the surrounding venue. Risers, staircases, 348...
View ArticleStudio Tenn’s Artist Director Matt Logan, Artfully Staged
by Martin Brady If we can’t get imagination into the audience,” says Matt Logan, “then we can’t get the story to live in their head. Since 2009, Logan has been inciting imagination in audiences as...
View ArticleTheatre: Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s King Lear – January 8-31
Over the last few years, we’ve received many requests from the community for a professional production of King Lear,” says Denice Hicks, executive director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. “We...
View ArticleArt Smart: School of Nashville Shakes
by DeeGee Lester “Methinks” the people of Nashville have a great opportunity to fully embrace Shakespeare with the launching (February 8) by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival of the new School of...
View ArticleTheatre: Write a play! I dare you!
by Jim Reyland I recognize how lucky I am to have two full productions of brand new plays in one Nashville season, but it’s not because of folks like me; it’s because there is a citywide appetite for...
View ArticleStudio Tenn: Polishing the Centerpiece: Studio Tenn’s Refreshed Design...
For Studio Tenn Theatre Company’s award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams’s classic play The Glass Menagerie, Artistic Director Matt Logan brings tangibility to this metaphor by incorporating...
View ArticleThe Nashville Children’s Theatre presents “Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus...
Now through March 13, 2016 History live on stage at the Nashville Children’s Theatre. December 1, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks, a black woman, refuses to surrender her seat on a public bus to...
View ArticleChaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre is celebrating its 50th Season with “Funny...
Now through March 12, 2016 As the curtain rises, children’s book author Andy Robbins is an unhappy bachelor since his divorce from his former collaborator, Ellen. One day Ellen re-enters pregnant; his...
View ArticleA Year With Frog and Toad Comes to NCT
by Jake Townsend The Tony-nominated musical A Year With Frog and Toad takes audiences through four fun-filled seasons with Arnold Lobel’s beloved storybook characters. Nashville Children’s Theatre...
View ArticleEddie George and TPAC: Nashville’s Transformers
July 2016 by DeeGee Lester/ Director of Education/ The Parthenon Former Tennessee Titan-turned-actor Eddie George seems to be able to transform himself at will. Like one of Hasbro’s popular toy...
View ArticleHPAC Auditions for Into The Woods
07/07/2016 Audition: July 18-19 at 6:30 p.m. The Hendersonville Performing Arts Company announces auditions for Into the Woods on Monday, July 18th and Tuesday, July 19th at 6:30 p.m. at the theatre...
View ArticleNashville’s Nutcracker: A Local Tradition
By Joseph E. Morgan It would seem that it was in 1897, at the Tennessee Centennial International Exhibition, that Clara’s strange and somewhat eccentric Uncle Drosselmeyer found the magical nutcracker....
View ArticleJim Reyland’s ‘Motel Noel’ Explores the Vexing Problem of being Homeless for...
Photography by Tiffani Bing By John Pitcher Do the poor and homeless really deserve our help? In Jim Reyland’s play Motel Noel, one of the central characters, a medical student and part-time shelter...
View Article7 Ways to Sunday
TPAC and Theater Bug tackle a difficult subject with Theater! 7 Ways to Sunday explores teen depression and suicide, with the goal of creating awareness and encouraging conversations that could save...
View ArticleNashville Story Garden presents “Love Song”
Love Song is a funny, enchanting, and touching comedy about the power of love in all its forms. Its premiere at the former Inglewood United Methodist Church will be October 28, and the show runs...
View ArticleThe Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe
November 2017 Jamison Theater December 1–23 Though Studio Tenn’s upcoming production of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may feature all manner of fantastic creatures, its storyline is...
View ArticleJim & Jesse: A son’s search for his father
By Jim Reyland Jim & Jesse is a new works production of the 4th Story Theater at West End United Methodist Church. The play was written by Ron L. Hall of Holly Springs, North Carolina and is based...
View ArticleInherit the Wind at the Rep
March 2018 Inspired by the sensational Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, this thrilling courtroom drama centers on the prosecution of a teacher who read about Darwin’s The Origin of...
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