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Jeffrey Ellis is a Nashville-based writer, editor and critic, who's been covering the performing arts in Tennessee for more than 35 years. In 1989, Ellis and his partner launched Dare, Tennessee's Lesbian and Gay Newsweekly which later became known as Query. Ellis is the recipient of the Tennessee Theatre Association's Distinguished Service Award for his coverage of theater in the Volunteer State and was the founding editor/publisher of Stages, the Tennessee Onstage Monthly.  He is a past fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and is the founder/executive producer of The First Night Honors - the history of which can be traced to 1989 and the first presentation of The First Night Awards - which honor outstanding theater artisans from Tennessee in recognition of their lifetime achievements and also includes The First Night Star Awards and the Most Promising Actors recognition. Midwinter's First Night honors outstanding productions and performances throughout the state. An accomplished director, Ellis helmed productions of La Cage Aux Folles, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and An American Daughter, all in their Nashville premieres, as well as award-winning productions of Damn Yankees, Company, Gypsy and The Rocky Horror Show. Ellis was recognized by The Tennessean as best director of a musical for both Company and Rocky Horror. Since 2015, Ellis has been increasingly in demand as a director by a variety of Tennessee theater companies and he has helmed productions of Picnic (Circle Players), The Last Five Years (VWA Theatricals), The Miss Firecracker Contest, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will?, South Pacific, Winter Wonderettes and The Wizard of Oz (The Larry Keeton Theatre), The Little Foxes (ACT 1), The Boys in the Band (Jeffey Ellis Presents), Singin' in the Rain (Arts Center of Cannon County) and The Secret Garden (Center for the Arts, Murfreesboro) and, in 2020, the 70th anniversary season production of La Cage Aux Folles for Circle Players. Later this year, he will be directing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical for Center for the Arts.

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BWW Review: Vasterling's DRACULA From Nashville Ballet

BWW Review: Vasterling's DRACULA From Nashville Ballet

October 23, 2015

Darkly sensual and broodingly sexy, Paul Vasterling's balletic interpretation of Bram Stoker's legendary anti-hero Dracula (first presented in 1999 and revived in 2007) remains as potent and as stirring as ever, richly conceived and beautifully performed by the dancers of Nashville Ballet, who offer

CRITICS' CHOICE: Theater To Keep The Frost Off the Pumpkin

CRITICS' CHOICE: Theater To Keep The Frost Off the Pumpkin

October 23, 2015

There's the definite feeling of autumn in the air that makes you want to gut a pumpkin or at least have a pumpkin spice latte, chances are you are definitely going to need a sweater in the early morning hours, and it's past the perfect time for you to pick out a Halloween costume.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Calvin David Malone

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Calvin David Malone

October 23, 2015

Ask people involved in theater around Nashville to list some of their favorites who have moved on to seek fame and fortune in other places, one name that's likely to come up is Calvin David Malone.

COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Vanderbilt University's CATE JO

COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Vanderbilt University's CATE JO

October 22, 2015

Take Cate Jo, for example: A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she originally arrived on the Vanderbilt campus with an eye toward a career in academia, ultimately changing course to pursue a career as an actress.

BWW Review: CINDERELLA Captivates in Music City Debut

BWW Review: CINDERELLA Captivates in Music City Debut

October 21, 2015

Sumptuously designed, beautifully staged and wonderfully sung, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella isn't the same show you may recall from childhood hours spent in front of a television or from scores of regional theater productions since, but with a new and refreshingly timely book by Douglas Carter

BWW Interviews: CINDERELLA's Blair Ross 'Comes Home' to Play 'Madame'

BWW Interviews: CINDERELLA's Blair Ross 'Comes Home' to Play 'Madame'

October 16, 2015

It is fitting, perhaps, and definitely a case of perfect timing, for actress Blair Ross: Preparing to go onstage as “Madame” – aka The Wicked Stepmother – in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella with most of her Tennessee family on hand to share in the excitement from their vantage point in th

CRITIC'S CHOICE: We're Back With Some Tips for Fall

CRITIC'S CHOICE: We're Back With Some Tips for Fall

October 15, 2015

We're back! After an extended absence due to The Last Five Years (we directed it to boffo notices from our critical colleagues), The 2015 First Night Honors (which played to SRO crowds at Chaffin's Barn in September) and a sense of overwhelming malaise and ennui (we are ever so dramatic at times), B

COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Middle Tennessee State University's COLLIN PETERSON

COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Middle Tennessee State University's COLLIN PETERSON

October 14, 2015

Take Collin Peterson, for example: a junior vocal performance and music education major at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has been acting in theatrical productions for a number of years, most recently starring as Tarzan in Arts Center of Cannon County's Tarzan, the Musical, direc

BWW Review: Keeton Theatre's THE MUSIC MAN

BWW Review: Keeton Theatre's THE MUSIC MAN

October 11, 2015

If you were to ask me to list my five favorite musicals (or even my top ten), there is a very good chance I would not include Meredith Willson's The Music Man among my chosen favorites.

BWW Review: Arts Center of Cannon County's 12 ANGRY MEN

BWW Review: Arts Center of Cannon County's 12 ANGRY MEN

October 11, 2015

Led by a pair of stellar performances from Aaron Solomon and Darryl Deason, Arts Center of Cannon County's production of Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men retains its crackling intensity some 61 years after it premiered on television and 58 years since the acclaimed film version starring Henry Fonda and

BWW Reviews: ACT 1's Dismal DEATHTRAP

BWW Reviews: ACT 1's Dismal DEATHTRAP

October 9, 2015

And that, gentle readers, is just the first problem with ACT 1's season-opening production of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, a sturdy, if perhaps shopworn, theatrical thriller now onstage through October 17 at Darkhorse Theater.

Murfreesboro's CFTA Welcomes THE ADDAMS FAMILY Musical

Murfreesboro's CFTA Welcomes THE ADDAMS FAMILY Musical

October 8, 2015

Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts presents The Addams Family, A New Musical - the Broadway musical by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) and Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) - October 16 through November 1.

Getting Into the SPIRIT of Tennessee's Bell Witch Legend

Getting Into the SPIRIT of Tennessee's Bell Witch Legend

October 8, 2015

There's a definite feeling of autumn in the air in Middle Tennessee - despite this week's warmer temperatures and plenty of sunshine - and as the calendar moves forward toward Halloween and the time of ghost stories and other sinister tales comes the opening of playwright David Alford's SPIRIT: The

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Deonte Warren

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Deonte Warren

October 8, 2015

Ask people involved in theater around Nashville to list some of their favorites who have moved on to seek fame and fortune in other places, one name that almost always pops up is Deonte Warren.

STAGE TUBE: IT'S WHO YOU KNOW

STAGE TUBE: IT'S WHO YOU KNOW

October 7, 2015

Chambers Stevens is a bona fide Hollywood multi-hyphenate - actor-comedian-acting coach-author - who somehow has encapsulated all of that and more in his new one-man show It's Who You Know, premiering at Memphis' Evergreen Theatre, 1705 Poplar Avenue, October 15-18.

Chambers Stevens' IT'S WHO YOU KNOW to Play Evergreen Theatre

Chambers Stevens' IT'S WHO YOU KNOW to Play Evergreen Theatre

October 6, 2015

Chambers Stevens is a bona fide Hollywood multi-hyphenate - actor-comedian-acting coach-author - who somehow has encapsulated all of that and more in his new one-man show It's Who You Know, premiering at Memphis' Evergreen Theatre, 1705 Poplar Avenue, October 15-18.




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