Author: Fjolla Hoxha

From the Circle Players

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed 1976 choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf opened Circle Players’ 75th season. Middle Tennessee’s oldest non-profit community theatre group is committed to inclusivityRead More

Kindling Arts Festival 2024 – a selected works review

In its seventh year of being the main showcasing platform for performing arts in Nashville, once again, Kindling Arts Festival’s focus was on a broad theme of immense social valueRead More

One of MCR's Drama Specialists goes to a Conference:

“Navigating Waters: From Oppression to Liberation”- the 27th Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference

For those who view theater as a tool for empowerment and social change, Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed (PTO) are not foreign terms, however, I wouldn’t want to assume anyone’sRead More

A review of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive

Nashville Repertory Theater closes its 39th annual season in a promising and open-ended tone with the staging of POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to KeepRead More

The MCR Interview

Director Stephanie Dillard on the staging of Lauren Gunderson’s acclaimed play The Revolutionists and Women in Theater (WIT) Nashville

Stephanie Dillard is an opera-singer, audiobook narrator, theater director and the board president of Women in Theatre (WIT) Nashville which was founded in 2023 to showcase the incredible talent, stories,Read More

At the Darkhorse Theater

The Revolutionists Premiers at Darkhorse Theater

To mark the International Women’s Day, Women in Theater (WIT) Nashville brings to stage Lauren Gunderson’s acclaimed play The Revolutionists, directed by Stephanie Dillard, who also serves as the boardRead More

From the Annals of Activism

A Conversation on Art and Activism

Last week, an exhilarating yet casual, interactive community conversation around art and activism took place at Tennessee Justice Center, a nonprofit public interest law & advocacy firm serving families inRead More

Girl From the North Country: the Bob Dylan Jukebox Musical

In the Broadway musical Girl from the North Country, joy and sorrow are felt collectively, and they transcend temporal limits. Irish playwright and director Conor McPherson joins forces with composerRead More

Girl From the North Country at TPAC

Set in a boarding house during the Great Depression era in Bob Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, Girl from the North Country depicts a close-knit community as their life pathsRead More

At Play Dance Bar

Embracing a Queer Christmas: a review of Christmas Carol Circuit Party

A compelling parallel can be drawn between the era when Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol and Woven Theatre Company’s Christmas Carol Circuit Party. Already an internationally acclaimed literary celebrity andRead More