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Based on Sophocles' Greek myth Oedipus and set in a contemporary African-American gospel church service, this production will move and thrill you with electrifying vocals.

In response to last September's vicious attack of a gay Philadelphia couple, Roxy Regional Theatre executive director Tom Thayer felt compelled to produce Neil LaBute's bash: latterday plays.

On Monday, May 11th, The Orpheum Theatre announced the winners of the 2015 High School Musical Theatre Awards show.

For its spring musical, Playhouse on the Square has reached several decades back and produced -- not an 'old warhorse of a musical' (sorry, Rodgers and Hammerstein) -- but a true thoroughbred, Cole Porter's sparkling, innovative (at the time) KISS ME, KATE.

Kiss Me, Kate is Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew set to Cole Porter's greatest score.

 Anything Goes opens June 5 and runs through June 28, 2015, on the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis.

The Orpheum Theatre is thrilled to announce that the all-new live show MythBusters Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED!, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' debuts at The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis for one night only on Saturday, November 14, 201

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, in partnership with the University of Memphis' Department of Theatre & Dance, presents its first developing musical reading on the U of M mainstage with Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Freidman on May 23 at 7:00 pm.

The Orpheum Theatre announces the official 2015 schedule for its annual Summer Movie Series.

The Memphis Development Foundation (MDF), which operates the historic Orpheum Theatre, announces that Ron Jewell, current Director of the Bartlett Performing Arts Center, will join the MDF staff as Vice-President of Operations at the forthcoming Centre for Performing Arts Education.

Having just secured the rights to the new Terrence McNally play Mothers and Sons, Theatre Memphis will produce that drama in place of Edward Albee's All Over,  previously announced as the February 2016 offering in the upcoming season.

Season tickets for the 2015-2016 Broadway Series will go on sale to the public Monday, May 18th at 10:00am.

Four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing lessons with Leonard, a once celebrated literary figure.

A green ogre, an enchanted garden, a rhyming feline, a punk rock opera, and the boy who asked for more .

As part of Tennessee Shakespeare Company's first year-round season, the development of three exciting new musicals launches on the University of Memphis Mainstage this summer with Showplace Memphis: Musical Works in Progress.

George Cukor's 1940 film version of Philip Barry's THE PHILADELPHIA STORY was Katharine Hepburn's return to glory after the actress had been labeled 'box office poison' after the failure of several films.

Once again, it's Spring; and once again, Stage Door Productions has brought professionals and nonprofessionals together to share their love of musical theatre and their talents in what is, by now, an annual event: THE BEST OF BROADWAY 3, closing this weekend at the KROC Center, is Director Brandon K

The Philadelphia Story opens tonight, April 24 and runs through May 10, 2015, on the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis.

Casting is now complete for Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's musical MARY POPPINS, set to open tonight, April 24.

David Morgan's detailed set design for Circuit Playhouse's production of Nina Raine's TRIBES 'speaks volumes' (no pun intended) for the noisy, ego-driven family the audience is about to meet: Piano, stage left; 'intellectual' clutter scattered about; books everywhere; and - oh, yes - a liquor bottle

On Monday, May 11th at 7:00 p.

Kiss Me, Kate is Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew set to Cole Porter's greatest score.

An American in Paris, an elegant evening of entertainment and classic cuisine will be held on May 15, 2015 at Theatre Memphis beginning at 6:30pm.

A 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist fresh from off-Broadway, the regional premiere of Rapture, Blister, Burn, by Gina Gionfriddoushers into the Next Stage at Theatre Memphis and runs April 3 - 19, 2105.