BWW Review: CICADA at Theatre Memphis
Theatre Memphis’ newest production (CICADA) which opened this past weekend and runs through April 16th explores the difference between a memory and a ghost and what it means to be haunted by both.
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BWW Review: CATS at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
It's a fan-favorite and it's back at the Orpheum Theatre Memphis! Cats is the 4th longest-running Broadway show, coming in behind The Lion King, and is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
BWW Review: TOOTSIE at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Tootsie is a new musical based on the 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman.
BWW Review: AMERICAN SON at Theatre Memphis
Between 24-hour news and omnipresent social media infiltrating our every waking hour, it would seem that we are talking more about race in 2022 than ever before.
BWW Review: HADESTOWN at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Way down in Memphis, there's a poor boy working on a song.
BWW Review: OUR TOWN at Theatre Memphis
What a conundrum for an artist.
BWW Review: HAMILTON at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
In 2009, at the peak of his Broadway musical In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda took a little vacation and started to read a copy of the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
BWW Review: DISNEY'S THE LION KING at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Disney's The Lion King roars its way back into Memphis and audiences are thrilled to welcome the popular show back to the Orpheum stage! Always a Memphis favorite, the show is pure magic for its audiences, adults and children alike.
BWW Review: URINETOWN, THE MUSICAL at Theatre Memphis
I pride myself on not being a paranoid person.
BWW Review: COME FROM AWAY at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Come From Away is open and everyone NEEDS to fly to the Orpheum to catch this spectacular show!
BWW Review: HELLO, DOLLY! at Theatre Memphis
Everything these days seems to be ephemeral.
BWW Review: DAYS OF RAGE at Playhouse On The Square
After a 17-month pandemic-induced hiatus, Playhouse on the Square has finally opened its doors again to an in-person audience with its season premiere of DAYS OF RAGE (now through September 19th).
BWW Review: IVANKA VS. REALITY at TheatreWorks
I think it's time I came out of the closet.
BWW Review: IN REAL LIFE at Hattiloo Theatre
There's an old cliché that says, 'If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
BWW Review: ALADDIN at Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Catch the magic at the Orpheum Theatre until March 8th.
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Germantown Community Theatre
Next to Normal is not to be taken lightly but it's also not to be missed.
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Goes Right in Memphis
In a world where nothing goes right, it's hard work to make sure everything goes wrong.
BWW Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at Orpheum Theatre Memphis
Overall, David Grieg's book, along with Marc Shaiman's and Scott Wittman's music, make for a fun family show with plenty of laughs.
BWW Review: HEAD OVER HEELS at Circuit Playhouse
The orchestra strikes the opening drumbeats and bass guitar riffs, instantly recognizable to 80's music aficionados as The Go-Go's' hit 'We Got the Beat.
BWW Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at The Orpheum
The mamas and the papas (and sons and daughters) debuted at Memphis's Orpheum on Tuesday night, but this was no case of California dreamin'.
BWW Review: ON YOUR FEET! at The Orpheum
Rare is the wedding, Bar Mitzvah, office holiday party or Sweet 16 that does not at some point feature a rousing rendition of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine's 'Conga.
BWW Review: WAITRESS at The Orpheum
Since its 2015 premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts - a popular laboratory for some of Broadway's most recent smash hits -Waitress, with music and lyrics by the indomitably popular songstress Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson, has made defying the theater c
BWW Review: LES MISERABLES at The Orpheum
There is probably little to say or write about Les Miserables that has not already been said or written.
BWW Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK at The Orpheum
There is a moment during the closing scene of Andrew Lloyd Webber's School of Rock when the show transforms from a mere crowd pleasing musical, to a pure and unadulterated celebration.
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Mean Girls Playhouse in the Square (8/21-9/13) |
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Speak, Salvation, Speak Hattiloo Theatre (8/13-9/06) |
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Continuum: A Faculty and Guest Artist Choreographed Dance Concert Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (11/20-11/22) |
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Titanic Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (4/22-4/25) |
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It's Raining Queens™ Orpheum Theatre Memphis (10/02-10/02) |
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Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (2/18-2/21) |
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Clown Bar Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (9/24-9/26) |
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Clue The Orpheum Theatre Memphis (9/15-9/20) |
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Leanne Morgan Thompson Boling Arena (12/12-12/12) |
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Mozart’s The Secret Gardener (La finta giardiniera) The Morrow Lawn at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (4/10-4/17) |