Year: 2025

Broadway at TPAC

Mamma Mia!

It was quite the packed night at TPAC. On March 18, 2025 at 7:15 pm, the air was both alive and electrified. In my time as a music journalist, IRead More

From the Nashville Repertory Theatre

Sunday in the Park with George

I had been looking forward to this show since they’d first announced it. Sondheim! Sunday in the Park with George won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (one of onlyRead More

from the Annals of Nashville's Diversity:

Mendelssohn, Huang, and Barnes at the Schermerhorn

Sometimes the best concerts give you no, or very little, indication of what is happening beforehand. This was the case with the Nashville Symphony’s presentation on April 11 & 12,Read More

From the Nashville Opera

The Bloody Tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti

The bloody tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti  (1797-1848) originally premiered in 1835. It is a Romantic opera is loosely based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, TheRead More

Broadway at TPAC

Kimberly Akimbo

The premise to this show is both common and strange. Kimberly is a 16 year old dealing with her dysfunctional family, teenage aspirations, and high school. What is strange isRead More

At the Fisk Chapel

Upon These Shoulders: The Living Legacy

On April 4th, in Fisk’s historic Memorial Chapel, Intersection, Choral Arts Link, and the W. Crimm Singers (aka Wakanda Chorale) presented the their annual concert series Upon these Shoulders: TheRead More

The Nashville Rep

Sunday in the Park with George

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s famous painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George is aRead More

Coming to Nashville

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly is about to turn 16 and recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Kim is forced to navigate family dysfunction, a rare geneticRead More

At the Darkhorse Theater

A Tiny Beautiful Play

I hadn’t heard of the book Tiny Beautiful Things or its TV and stage adaptations before Women in Theatre Nashville announced this show. I had, however, heard of Cheryl Strayed’sRead More

Get to Know the GCO, part one:

The Gateway Chamber Orchestra Proves themselves to be Gamers at the Customs House Museum!

On March 30, a small crowd gathered at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville. At 3:00 pm, the lights dimmed and the sound of a string quartet could be heardRead More