Month: June 2024

Hairspray: Final Broadway Event of The Season

Hairspray is a musical comedy set in 1960s Baltimore. 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad sets out to get onto TV’s most popular teen dance show, along the way she finds love andRead More

Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue

Oz Arts’ season closer, Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue for 12 dancers, is a remarkable composition. In two parts, it juxtaposes Sergeï Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with electronic music of JamieRead More

Nashville Symphony Ends its Season

Romanticism, Expressionism and Primitivism at the Schermerhorn

From May 30 to June 2 the Nashville Symphony ended its season with a presentation of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in a rather strange pairing with two rarely heard songRead More

Jack Antonoff and the Bleachers at the Ryman

Electric atmosphere?  Anthemic choruses? Dueling drum sets?? Jack Antonoff and Bleachers deliver all three, and more, with exceptional, high-energy music. Originally from New Jersey, Bleachers has become the premier performingRead More