Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Memphis Theatre Newsroom — Page 64

Back to main newsroom

BWW Reviews: Playhouse 'Brushes Up' KISS ME, KATE

BWW Reviews: Playhouse 'Brushes Up' KISS ME, KATE

by Joseph Baker — May 11, 2015

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.

MYTHBUSTERS Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED! Set for The Orpheum, 11/14

MYTHBUSTERS Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED! Set for The Orpheum, 11/14

by BWW News Desk — May 5, 2015

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

TN Shakespeare Company to Present TENDERLY, THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL

TN Shakespeare Company to Present TENDERLY, THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL

by BWW News Desk — May 5, 2015

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.

Orpheum Welcomes Ron Jewell as VP of Centre Operations

Orpheum Welcomes Ron Jewell as VP of Centre Operations

by BWW News Desk — April 30, 2015

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.

Theatre Memphis Adds MOTHERS AND SONS to Season

Theatre Memphis Adds MOTHERS AND SONS to Season

by BWW News Desk — April 29, 2015

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.

BWW Reviews: And BEST OF BROADWAY 2 Begat BEST OF BROADWAY 3

BWW Reviews: And BEST OF BROADWAY 2 Begat BEST OF BROADWAY 3

by Joseph Baker — April 24, 2015

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

BWW Reviews:  Dia-TRIBES at Circuit

BWW Reviews: Dia-TRIBES at Circuit

by Joseph Baker — April 21, 2015

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

BroadwayWorld TV


Sweeney Todd in Memphis Sweeney Todd
Playhouse on the Square (6/12-7/12)
Bored Teachers in Memphis Bored Teachers
Graceland Soundstage (10/08-10/08)
Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really in Memphis Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (2/18-2/21)
Clown Bar in Memphis Clown Bar
Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (9/24-9/26)
Suffs in Memphis Suffs
The Orpheum Theatre Memphis (7/28-8/02)
Titanic in Memphis Titanic
Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (4/22-4/25)
Rent in Memphis Rent
Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (10/29-11/01)
John and Jen in Memphis John and Jen
TheatreSouth (6/24-6/28)
Clue in Memphis Clue
The Orpheum Theatre Memphis (9/15-9/20)
Speed-the-Plow in Memphis Speed-the-Plow
TheatreSouth (6/23-6/27)