MEMPHIS THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 64

While watching the Next Stage production of Gina Gionfriddo's RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN at Theatre Memphis, I was reminded of John Van Druten's screenplay for the 1943 Warner Brothers film OLD ACQUAINTANCE.

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

Billy is a young man born deaf and raised in a loud, opinionated family where his parents and siblings never bothered to learn sign language, requiring him to adapt to the hearing world.

The Orpheum Theatre's Family Series will present a fun-filled, interactive stage experience with Spot, the most famous and adored dog in children's literature, tonight, April 10th at 6:30 PM.

As part of its Southern Exposure Series, which features new and classic literature by Southern writers, Tennessee Shakespeare Company this April returns to its popular Tuesday Literary Salon spotlighting the early poetry and short stories of William Faulkner.

Poor 'Edna Pontellier' of Kate Chopin's THE AWAKENING - as 'corseted' by society as she is by the habiliments of the day.

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

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

By popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking one-week run in 2014, returns to Memphis for a limited engagement March 15 - 20, 2016 as an option.

Ed Graczyk's 1976 drama 'Come back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean' has a simple premise: It's September 30, 1975, and a small town dime store in West Texas is hosting the reunion of a James Dean Fan Club to mark the 20-year anniversary of Giant, which was filmed nearby.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company, the Mid-South's professional, classical theatre and education organization, is offering two unique, immersive Shakespeare Training Camps to be held for the first time on the campus of the University of Memphis this June.

The Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, TN, begins a national search to replace its long-time President & CEO, Pat Halloran.

Billy is a young man born deaf and raised in a loud, opinionated family where his parents and siblings never bothered to learn sign language, requiring him to adapt to the hearing world.

I wonder if Jackie Nichols is providing on-site psychiatric help for those involved in the repertory presentations of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL and Christopher Durang's VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at Playhouse on the Square.

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

Germantown Community Theatre has announced the slate of productions for their 2015-2016 season.

KING HEDLEY II Provides Powerful Theatre at Hattiloo

The Orpheum Theatre's Family Series will present a fun-filled, interactive stage experience with Spot, the most famous and adored dog in children's literature, on Friday, April 10th at 6:30 PM.

Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, Jr.

Seasoned actor Jay Doolittle returns to the Roxy Regional Theatre this spring to reprise his role as Morrie Schwartz in the beloved play based on Mitch Albom's New York Times bestselling memoir, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, March 27 - April 11.

Staging a play by Henrik Ibsen or Anton Chekhov poses certain problems for theatre groups.

The Emerald Theatre Company at Theatre Works is currently showcasing not one, not two, not three - but nine pieces in its latest production, STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS.

The Boy from Oz opens March 6 and runs through March 29, 2015, on the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis.

There was a time when it seemed as if any talent contender in a beauty pageant would lay into 'Don't Cry Out Loud' (later, Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' seemed to supplant it).

Virtue and vice sit atop the scales this spring in the Roxy Regional Theatre's 30th annual Shakespeare production.