Theater/Dance

The MCR Interview

Nashville Rep’s ‘Christmas Carol’ (Interview with Micah-Shane Brewer, Artistic Director)

As part of the MCR Interview series journalist Grace Tipton asks Micah-Shane Brewer about his design for the new production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Nashville Rep this December.  

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

New Release from Joyous Records

Sofia Goodman’s ‘Receptive’ and the Ideal Character

Human character, its content, strengths, failings, hypocrisy, depth and intimate shadings have long been the subject of artistic, and particularly musical, expression. It is said that the contrasting themes ofRead 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

Hairspray at TPAC

You (Nashville) Can’t Stop the Beat

Tuesday, June 11 was the opening night performance of Hairspray at TPAC. Hairspray is a Tony Award winning musical with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman andRead More

Frozen: Perfectly Fine

The film this musical is based on was such a hit in 2013 that anyone alive then or since then is at least aware of it, its characters, and canRead More

Song of the North: a Thousand-Year-Old Tale of Empowerment at Oz Arts

The longest epic poem created by a single author, Shahnameh, the Epic of the Persian Kings, tells the history of pre-Islamic Persia in 62 stories that amass 50,000 rhyming couplets.Read More

From the Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Hamlet

It seems to me that the primary difficulty, or “rub” in producing Hamlet, perhaps the most well-known play that Shakespeare wrote, and arguably the greatest play ever written (depending, ofRead More

Frist Art Museum in collaboration with Nashville Opera

When Marian Sang

It wasn’t clear what to expect. A collaboration between an art museum and an opera company was unusual enough to pique curiosity in lovers of both arts. So, on aRead More

Now My Favorite Color is Purple

  Sitting down in TPAC’s Polk Theater, the stage is distinctive, all dark, wide, wood planks. There is a slight platform in the center of the stage, and all entrancesRead More

Annie at TPAC

Little Orphan Annie debuted as a comic strip in 1924: one hundred years ago. It became a radio show (you may have seen Ralphie decode its secret message in theRead More