James Hansen News

Are you ready to recall the days of miniskirts, transistor radios and flower power? Bill Hanney's award winning Theatre By The Sea (TBTS) is set to make its own kind of music with BEEHIVE The '60s Musical, the ultimate celebration of 1960's female empowerment. Performances begin Wednesday, May 31 and plays thru Sunday, June 18, 2017. Press night is scheduled for Friday, June 2 at 8p.m.

Stage Door Theatre will present the darkly comedic musical, No Way to Treat a Lady beginning April 14th.  The production will run through May 28th in the popular Margate venue's Theatre 2.

The internationally acclaimed Pig Iron Theatre Company's A Period of Animate Existence, an ambitious new multimedia stage work meditating on extinctions, climate change, and the Anthropocene, will figure prominently in the timely conference An Ecotopian Toolkit for the Anthropocene, which the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania presents April 13-15.

Pig Iron Theatre Company, the internationally acclaimed, Philadelphia-based organization, has announced A Period of Animate Existence, an ambitious new multimedia production that meditates on perhaps the most pressing issue facing this and future generations-climate change, which threatens to result in the loss of 20-50% of all living species on earth-and asks, "How do we contemplate the future in such a moment?"

All good things must come to an end, and signature performances are no exception. After nine years of delivering countless 'Bah Humbugs' upon the Roxy Regional Theatre stage, John McDonald will hang up his hat as the miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge with this year's production of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, opening tonight, December 9.

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.

All good things must come to an end, and signature performances are no exception.  After nine years of delivering countless 'Bah Humbugs' upon the Roxy Regional Theatre stage, John McDonald will hang up his hat as the miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge with this year's production of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL, opening December 9.

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.

Turkeys are on-sale at your local supermarket, so there's no better way to know Thanksgiving is just around the corner - yep, less than two weeks away! - which means that local theater companies will be unleashing their holiday season productions with enough productions of A Christmas Story (both the musical and the play), It's A Wonderful Life and Ebenezer Scrooge-led shows that you could shake a stick at!

The haunting moors of England will come to life at the Roxy Regional Theatre in the enchanting musical THE SECRET GARDEN, playing tonight, November 13 through November 27.

Thus, we are happy to present the return of one our most popular features: The Nashville Theater Calendar, a comprehensive - maybe even exhaustive (lord knows we're exhausted from putting it together, gathering all the info from all over the interwebs!) - listing of theatrical openings for the 2015/16 season. We'll update the calendar every Monday, clearing out the shows that have closed and adding additional information on the shows still to come. Something's missing? That's an easy fix: just send us a message here, on Facebook, or by email at jeffreyellis37215@att.com.

Insightful and haunting, Utah Repertory Theater Company's production of CARRIE THE MUSICAL is a raw and compelling piece of theatre.

Sometimes it seems there is so much theater happening that it's difficult to keep track of it all. From personal experience, despite all the datebooks, smart phones, tablets, desktop computers and laptops...it's hard to keep everything straight in this wacky business of the show.

Virginia Richardson, who stunned audiences at September's First Night Honors gala with her performance of "Ring of Keys" from the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home, will play the young heroine Mary Lennox in Roxy Regional Theatre's upcoming production of The Secret Garden, running November 13-27 in Clarksville.

The haunting moors of England will come to life at the Roxy Regional Theatre in the enchanting musical THE SECRET GARDEN, playing November 13 through November 27.

That sweet transvestite and his motley crew are back for a limited engagement, so prepare to do the 'Time Warp' like you have never done it before!  Richard O'Brien's cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW returns to the Roxy Regional Theatre for five performances only, tonight, October 23 - October 31.  

Today, October 8, 2015, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 15th Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF) with a Gala Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in New York. Committed to the future expressions of dance, WHITE WAVE scours the world seeking the most risk-taking emerging and renowned dance makers of our time and brings them to Brooklyn for one weekend.

That sweet transvestite and his motley crew are back for a limited engagement, so prepare to do the 'Time Warp' like you have never done it before!  Richard O'Brien's cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW returns to the Roxy Regional Theatre for five performances only, October 23 - October 31.  

Next Thursday, October 8, 2015, "The 15th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival" explodes onto the stage of the Gelsey Kirkland ArtsCenter. For four nights and three days, lovers of dance will experience an Instagram of contemporary dance. The DUMBO Dance Festival is committed to the future expressions of dance by providing performance opportunities for 75 dance troupes from across America and the globe.

Seventy-six trombones close the Roxy Regional Theatre's 32nd season with a nostalgic bang when Meredith Willson's great American musical classic THE MUSIC MAN marches onto the mainstage, beginning today, July 17. The production will continue through August 22.