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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.  

Coming soon!

Nashville Sonido Latino, November 2024

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss Latino events happening in Music City, soRead More

The Jazz Beat, November, 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

Nuevo de Music City

No Es Danza Macabra, Es Ballet Con Identidad

(English Version here) Cuán afortunados son aquellos en quienes sus recuerdos se revelan con nitidez y movimiento. Aún más afortunado es el que es capaz de replicarlos para que permanezcanRead More

From Nashville Ballet

Not a Dance Macabre, But a Ballet with Identity

(Versión en español aquí) How fortunate are those whose memories reveal themselves with clarity and movement. Even more fortunate is the one capable of replicating them so they may endure inRead More

At the Schermerhorn

NSO’s One Program in Three Mediums – Opera, Orchestra, and Ballet

The Nashville Symphony and Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero took audiences to the opera house, the concert hall, and even the ballet with the program presented October 17-19. Featuring the artistry ofRead More

from Franklin Light Opera

The Pirates of Penzance

It’s easy on the one hand to write off the dramatic merits of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas, especially when they’re compared against much of the rest of the standard operaticRead More

The MCR Interview:

Actress Lisa Arrindell and ‘Jubilee’

Actress Lisa Arrindell speaks with MCR journalist Andrew Davis on Tazwell Thompson’s Opera ‘Jubilee’ premiering at the Seattle Opera this month. They discuss the history of the Jubilee Ensemble andRead More

Nashville's 2024–2025 Dance Season:

Come Spin, Swerve, Swivel, and Squirm

Wurm's "Big Disobedience" in Nashville
In 2022-2023 I had a “Wait and See” attitude. From 2022–2023: Before I returned home to Middle Tennessee, I binged ballet in New York and Houston, two American cities withRead More

Coming in October!

The Jazz Beat (October 1-15)

Hello, all, and welcome back to this regular column here at Music City Review. Here, we will update you with the most can’t-miss jazz events happening in Music City, soRead More

The Ties that Bind:

Bizet’s Carmen at the Nashville Opera

Bernardo Medeiros (Zuniga), Sara Crigger (Mercedes), Marina Costa-Jackson (Carmen), and Dee Donasco (Frasquita) in "Les tringles des sistres tintaient"
The lights in the theatre dim and the chattering crowd is suddenly silent, drinks with condensation dripping off them clutched tightly as the orchestra, one behemoth of magical sound, beginsRead More