Drama Review

Shakespeare Summer Festival Presents:

Much Ado About Something: 35 Years Of Summer Shakespeare

A local tradition for 35 years, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival kicked off this year’s Summer Shakespeare on August 31. I love the shift in scheduling; with Tennessee’s heat, I likeRead More

At the Nashville Rep.

9 to 5 was 10 out of 10

The movie this musical is based off of came out in 1980. My dad showed it to me in high school and I rewatched it last year, wondering how itRead More

Violet at the Nashville Repertory:

A Victorious Final Show

Violet is a straightforward musical about a young woman hoping a faith healer can heal her of a disfiguring facial scar. She travels across the south by bus in 1964,Read More

The Pirates of Penzance at Nashville Opera

I saw the Nashville Opera’s final performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance at TPAC’s Polk Theater this past weekend. This comic opera premiered over 150 years agoRead More

At the Andrew Johnson Theater in TPAC:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I was excited to see this play. I read Mark Haddon’s book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in high school, and really enjoyed it. It isRead More

The Nashville Repertoiry in Polk Theater

August Wilson’s Fences

I was unfamiliar with this play before seeing the Nashville Repertory Theatre perform it on opening night in TPAC’s Polk Theater, and I deliberately avoided reading about it beforehand toRead More

Winter Shakespeare Presents:

Love’s Labor’s Lost: An Approachable, Silly Night

Most of us have read or seen Shakespeare’s big tragedies and comedies, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and so on. I was unfamiliar with Love’sRead More

Theatre Nohgaku at the Frist

It was a misty gray afternoon, not cold, but comforting, a stay-inside kind of day, the kind of day you commonly see in the Japanese countryside, the kind of dayRead More