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Theatre Memphis will host the Memphis Children’s Theatre Festival on October 11, 2025, from 10 a.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! The 2025 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025.

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet will deliver a timeless tale of power and revenge to the Theatre Memphis Next Stage with an insightful take on a classic story.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running theatrical release in film history, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with original cast member, Barry Bostwick, at the Orpheum Theatre.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Free Shout-Out Shakespeare Series will return for its ninth season featuring Much Ado About Nothing.

xThe Memphis Symphony Orchestra will open its 74th season this September with three performances that showcase the breadth of the orchestra's artistry.

Tickets for & Juliet will go on sale Friday, August 29 for eight (8) performances in Memphis from Tuesday, November 25 through Sunday, November 30.

Musicals about historical events are nothing new.

Big Ears Festival will present Knoxville Broadcast, a large-scale, site-specific “spatial symphony” created by Guggenheim Fellow and Rome Prize-winning composer Lisa Bielawa, on October 17–18, 2025, at World’s Fair Park.

Over the past decade, the theatrical landscape in Memphis has changed dramatically.

Hattiloo Theatre has partnered with Lane College to present the production of Jubilee at the Ned R.

Playhouse on the Square’s Great Wine fundraiser will return September 16, 2025, in Memphis, pairing 10 wines with 8 costumed shows, live trivia, and more than 60 prizes.

Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is coming to The Circuit Playhouse next month.

An incredible true story of the 7,000 stranded passengers forced to land in a small town in Newfoundland due to the emergency closure of US airspace on 9/11/2001.

Studio Tenn has announced that Broadway’s Carrie St.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced that THE NOTEBOOK, the acclaimed new musical based on Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel, will play a limited engagement in Memphis from October 28 to November 2, 2025.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced the limited engagement of the pre-Broadway production of Austen's Pride September 9-10.

Something Rotten! will come onto the Theatre Memphis Lohrey Theatre stage to parade a raucous sendup of musical theater August 15 - September 7, 2025.

Cumberland County Playhouse will present “9 to 5, The Musical!” With jubilant music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.

Playhouse on the Square will present the world premiere of Tragedy Sound, winner of the 2024 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition, at TheatreWorks @ TheSquare from July 11–27, 2025.

Individual tickets for the smash-hit musical, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL, will go on sale starting Thursday, July 3 at 10am.

'I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

Playhouse on the Square has released a statement mourning the loss of Fred Smith, founder of FedEx and longtime patron of the arts in the Mid-South region.

From 1918 to the mid-1930s, African American artists in the United States experienced a cultural blossoming known as the Harlem Renaissance-a period in which theatre, music and literature were created by (and often for) Black Americans.

Tragedy Sound by Karen Saari is coming to Playhouse on the Square this summer.