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.  

The Jazz Beat: September 2024

This Month’s Highlights Here you’ll find the shows and events this month that I think are the real standouts, unique events that you won’t find every day in the city.Read More

Jazz at the Schermerhorn

The Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Joy of Music

On March 1st, 2024, the Duke Ellington Orchestra performed at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, filling the space with extraordinary playing and, above all, a sense of joy and connectedness. WithoutRead More

Beetlejuice: The Musical Is Better Than The Movie

On tour since 2022, Beetlejuice: The Musical is at TPAC March 12-17, and sold out almost every performance. I attended opening night, and despite the half-hour interruption due to someRead More

From the Street Theatre Company

Nashville’s Trail to Oregon!

Before I can get to the performance by Nashville’s Street Theatre Company, we must first discuss the subject of the parody, and the creators of this musical. First, The OregonRead More

Playing at TPAC

An Ethereal Little Musical about a ‘Jagged Little Pill’

The album “Jagged Little Pill” was released on 13 June 1995 by Canadian-American singer Alanis Morissette. It was her third album and most successful to date, with over 33 millionRead More

The African Company Presents Richard III: Unbelievably True

  For their Spring Shakespeare presentation, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival did a staged reading of Carlyle Brown’s play The African Company Presents Richard III. Based on true events, the playRead More

from the National Museum of African American Music:

A Review of Gospel: Panel & Watch Party

On Monday, February 12th, I had the pleasure of attending an engrossing and stimulating panel discussion at the National Museum of African American Music, sponsored, and curated by WPLN, Nashville’sRead More

From Belmont's Department of Theater and Dance

Blue Stockings

Tuesday evening, February 20th, I saw the Belmont Department of Theatre and Dance performance of Blue Stockings. It was a very enjoyable evening: the play is fantastic. It is aboutRead More

Thoughts of a Colored Man: Town and Gown Triumph

The first morality play in Western culture was written in 12th-century Germany by a woman for women. Of its many characters, only one, the devil, was male. The most recentRead More

Tina Turner – The Tina Turner Musical

Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is a biographical jukebox musical, covering her life from her childhood to her fifties, ending at her record-breaking performance in Rio De Janeiro inRead More