MEMPHIS THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 52

The actors in this Circuit Playhouse production, directed by Bob Hetherington, are uniformly excellent, if overly energized.

The Orpheum's Summer Movie Series returns with a screening of Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth on Friday, July 8th at 7 PM at the Halloran Centre at the Orpheum.

Cloud 9 Memphis Presents THE OUTGOING TIDE at Theatreworks, directed by S.

The New Moon Theatre Company brings a fresh serving of Tennessee Williams to Memphis.

The Orpheum Theatre's 2016 Summer Movie Series moves into the Halloran Centre for the first time with a screening of the contemporary classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally on Friday, June 24th at 7 PM.

THE OUTGOING TIDE opens June 24.

The final show in the Playhouse on the Square 2015/2016 season is the World Premiere Production of Moon Vine at TheatreWorks!

The Orpheum Theatre's 2016 Summer Movie Series continues this week with the return of the The Sound of Music on Thursday, June 9th at 7 PM and The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday, June 10th at 8 PM.

After 20 bold years, The Emerald Theatre Company in Memphis is breaking new ground by holding its first annual 10-minute play festival.

On Thursday, May 26, 2016 The Orpheum Theatre announced the winners of the 2016 High School Musical Theatre Awards show.

?The final musical in the Playhouse on the Square 2015 - 2016 season is Sister Act! When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put into protective custody in a convent! The New York Times cries "when the wimples start quivering, the pinched mouths break into sunbeam smiles, and

? Arts Midwest today announced $1 million in grants to 40 nonprofit, professional theater companies across 26 states, plus the District of Columbia, to perform the works of William Shakespeare for students through Shakespeare in American Communities.

?The Orpheum Theatre's 2016 Summer Movie Series begins with the third installment of one of the world's most notable film franchises, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, on Thursday, June 2nd at 7:00 PM.

On Tuesday, May 24th the Board of Directors of the Memphis Development Foundation, the 501c3 nonprofit organization that operates the Orpheum Theatre and the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, unanimously voted to change its name to Orpheum Theatre Group.

? Theatre Memphis' final production of the 2015-16 season, Oliver!, will open June 10 and run until July 3, 2016, on the Lohrey Stage.

The lights come up, jazz age gangsters rush the stage and fire at the backdrop with their machine guns, and the words BULLETS OVER BROADWAY appears in lights--a perfect intro for a madcap caper.

? Mannheim Steamroller will present the best the holiday has to offer this season.

Best described as a grownup's prequel to Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatcher begins when young starcatcher-in-training, Molly, meets an orphan boy longing for a home of his own.

?The Orpheum Theatre is delighted to announce that the North American tour of the new stage adaptation of THE WIZARD OF OZ will play June 14-19 at The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis.

?Tennessee Shakespeare Company, in partnership with the University of Memphis' Department of Theatre & Dance, calls to action-packed theatrical life the battlefields and courts of an ambitious young king in William Shakespeare's masterwork on the chaos of war and the romance of peace:  Henry V.

When Director and Co-Choreographer Jordan Nichols first saw and enjoyed MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL, he knew that he just had to stage a production in the city itself; as polished and entertaining as it was, it needed just a little something .

Bucolic setting are wonderful .

Next week the Memphis Orpheum will teem with gun-toting lugs in pinstripes and leggy Jazz Age chorines as BULLETS OVER BROADWAY takes the stage.

Ghost of the Blues recently announced that Mud Morganfield, the eldest son of Muddy Waters, from Chicago, IL, was contracted as a principal player in the blues revue.