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.  

Mamma Mia!

A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale ofRead More

Bereishit Dance at OZ Arts

Oz Arts Nashville presented Bereishit Dance Company’s internationally acclaimed works “Judo” (premiered in 2014), and “Balance and Imbalance” (premiered in 2010). Choreographed by the award-winning visionary, Soon-ho Park, Bereishit isRead More

Hadestown: Orpheus and Eurydice in Nashville

Reworking ancient archetypes with new angles is perineally interesting; the Percy Jackson series has sold 180 million books, Madeline Miller’s Circe is a great popular read, and The Return isRead More

This Weekend: Hadestown

Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new showRead More

From the Nashville Shakespeare Festival

Pride and Prejudice and Plays

Pride and Prejudice is a beloved classic that has resurfaced as younger audiences have discovered the magic of Jane Austen through the 2005 film adaption directed by Joe Wright, whichRead More

at TPAC

&Juliet is as Merry as the Day is Long

February 11th was the opening night of &Juliet at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. This jukebox musical is a re-imagining of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare written by David WestRead More

Pride and Prejudice

Following the series of creative adaptations of classical literature comes Pride and Prejudice, a retelling of Jane Austen’s novel.  Described as “not your grandmother’s Austen”, the collaboration between Belmont University’sRead More

From Nashville's most intimate boards

Alice by Heart at the Barbershop

Street Theatre Company’s Alice by Heart, directed by Leslie Marberry, opens this weekend at the Barbershop theater in West Nashville. I was lucky enough to view the final dress rehearsalRead More

The Mountaintop

Celebrate Black History Month by seeing Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. The Tennessee playwright is the first Black valedictorian who graduated from Craigmont High School in Memphis before earning degrees fromRead More

& Juliet

Most of us know of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by heart. The classic tragedy follows the termitous love story between two teenagers whose passionate love leads to their demise. ButRead More