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In Shakespeare's day, actors performed for boistrous crowds that ate, drank, cheered heroes, booed the villains and shouted occasional quips at the stage; poetic soliloquies moved the dramas forward.

Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock opera by the legendary team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will be resurrected on the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis tonight, March 7 - 30, 2014.

This was my first journey to Armadillo Acres and I find the community and its residents hard to aptly describe.

On Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30 PM, the Orpheum Theatre will present The Intergalactic Nemesis, which brings Jason Neulander's famed graphic novel to life through a visually stunning comic-meets-radio production.

On Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30 PM, the Orpheum Theatre will present The Intergalactic Nemesis, which brings Jason Neulander's famed graphic novel to life through a visually stunning comic-meets-radio production.

Registration is now open for Playhouse on the Square's Summer Youth Theatre Conservatory.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is budgeted to earn approximately 42% of its season's income this year.

The University of Memphis recently welcomed the spirited Broadway and television actress Susan Blackwell as a guest artist.

On Saturday, March 1st, The Orpheum Theatre formally announced its much-anticipated 2014-2015 Broadway Season.

Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock opera by the legendary team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, will be resurrected on the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis March 7 - 30, 2014.

When everyone has something to hide, how far will they go to protect their secrets? A sequel from the poetic minds of Inner City South, 'Guilt, Lies and Lust 2' delivers more deception, scandal and betrayal.

Black Violin returns to the Orpheum Theatre tonight, February 28th at 6:30 PM.

Music has always played the role of Muse for me as a stage director.

The National Theatre of Great Britain's epic WAR HORSE, winner of five 2011 Tony Awards including Best Play, will make its premiere in Memphis, TN at the Orpheum Theatre beginning March 25.

n 1995, Playhouse on the Square founded the United Professional Theater Auditions (UPTA) to give professional actors and technicians from all over the country access to quality, paying theatres, as well as to offer theatres access to quality talent that can work year-round.

Critically acclaimed FROGZ! leaps onto the Orpheum stage tonight, February 21st at 6:30 PM and Saturday, February 22nd at 11:00 AM.

Today is my dad's birthday.

Some of my smartest Memphis Callboard colleagues put their heads together and made a list of ALL the local theatre companies in Memphis.

Elizabeth StanleyBroadway Stars Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet, Cry Baby) and Sal Viviano (The Three Musketeers, City Of Angels) will be appearing with Maestro Sameer Patel and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic at the Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana in BEHIND THE MASK.

As You Like It, a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare, opens at Theatre Memphis in the Next Stage today, February 14 and continues through March 2, 2014.

Elizabeth StanleyBroadway Stars Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet, Cry Baby) and Sal Viviano (The Three Musketeers, City Of Angels) will be appearing with Maestro Sameer Patel and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic at the Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne, Indiana in BEHIND THE MASK.

On February 7, The Commercial Appeal reported that two Tennessee state senators had filed a bill that would shield individuals, businesses, and other entities from lawsuits or other sanctions for refusing services and goods to same-sex couples "if doing so would violate (their) sincerely held religi

Yesterday evening at five, Playhouse on the Square hosted a lively reception.

When everyone has something to hide, how far will they go to protect their secrets? A sequel from the poetic minds of Inner City South, 'Guilt, Lies and Lust 2' delivers more deception, scandal and betrayal.

Pete Seeger died last Monday at age 94.