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Tennessee Shakespeare invites patrons to join them tomorrow night, November 3, at The Memphis Hunt & Polo Club as we continue our celebratory 400 Shakespeare series with perhaps his most shocking and modern play, Coriolanus.

Probably the best (of the few) productions of TITUS ANDRONICUS was the 1999 film directed by Julie Taymor.

An intensely dramatic parable, Theatre Memphis' production of Doubt will open November 6 and run until November 21, 2015, in the Next Stage.

Today, October 30th at 6:30 PM, the Orpheum's Family Series returns for its 2015-2016 season beginning with a stage adaptation of the classic children's book, Cat In The Hat.

Theatre Memphis Is bringing back the Overstock Yard Sale on the TM campus at 630 Perkins Extended today, October 24, 2015, from 7am - 1pm.

Last call! ??This is your last chance to nominate for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 2015.

Memphis' favorite Lost Boy is returning to the Playhouse on the Square stage! Join the Darling children as they adventure to Neverland and meet the terrible pirate Captain Hook, the beautiful Tiger Lily, and the clever fairy Tinkerbell.

TIME Magazine's #1 Show of the Year, MATILDA THE MUSICAL, is coming to Memphis as part of the 2015-2016 Broadway Series.

Theatre Memphis Is bringing back the Overstock Yard Sale on the TM campus at 630 Perkins Extended on October 24, 2015, from 7am - 1pm.

The set alone is testament as to why Theatre Memphis invariably is recognized during awards season for its designers -- two dominant windows admitting shifts in light as darkness falls, steps descending into a blind woman's apartment (steps on which menacing characters will align themselves as they

From what I've gathered, the original production of CARRIE THE MUSICAL would have been a dream project for Bialystock and Bloom, THE PRODUCERS: There's something eyebrow-raising about taking Stephen King's novel CARRIE and drenching it - not just in blood, but in music and lyrics.

Wait Until Dark creeps onto the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis tonight, October 16 - November 1, 2015.

The Orpheum Theatre will welcome the all-new live show MythBusters Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED!, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' for one night only on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 8:00 PM.

Playhouse on the Square's annual Curtain Up fundraiser will be held on Friday, November 13th from 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM.

CINDERELLA is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that was originally written for television.

 On Friday, November 13th at 6:30 PM, the Orpheum's Family Series presents ArcAttack at the Orpheum Theatre.

Wait Until Dark creeps onto the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis October 16 - November 1, 2015.

Last spring I sat with a rapt audience seeing Levi Frazier, Junior's new play For Our Freedom and Yours, a one-man show is based on the life of Ira Frederick Aldridge, a 19th Century African American actor who, against all odds, achieved a distinguished stage career during the era of slavery.

Nominations have now opened for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2014 and September 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.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, commemorates the 400th anniversary year of William Shakespeare's passing with 400: The Shakespeare Feast - its first-ever Shakespeare reading series with elegant, themed dinners from October 22 through November 8.

On Friday, November 6th at 7:00 PM, the Orpheum's Family Series continues with Nearly Lear at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education.

Interestingly, Playhouse on the Square has opted to produce Thornton Wilder's THE MATCHMAKER rather than HELLO, DOLLY, the legendary musical that it spawned - and therein lies both the blessing and the curse: There are so many lines here that served as song cues that the specter of Jerry Herman's 'e

On Saturday, November 7th at 6:30 PM the Orpheum Theatre will host its 37th Annual Auction.

The Memphis Development Foundation/Orpheum Theatre today announced that Brett Batterson has been selected as the new president and CEO of the organization.