BWW Blog: Shakespeare as Sustenance in our Community
For those of us who spend much our days raising funds to produce live theatre, we are intimate with the competition for those funds from individuals, governments, foundations, and corporations.
For those of us who spend much our days raising funds to produce live theatre, we are intimate with the competition for those funds from individuals, governments, foundations, and corporations.
In this context, 'monkey' is slang for an obstacle.
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, makes a return engagement today, January 10 - 19, 2014 at Theatre Memphis on the Next Stage.
Tennessee Shakespeare Company brings a sweeping, youthful, full-cast production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the Duncan-Williams Performance Hall at Germantown Performing Arts Center on January 28 and 30 at 7:00 pm.
This Tony Award winner for Best Musical and Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding New Musical is a comedy "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, makes a return engagement January 10 - 19, 2014 at Theatre Memphis on the Next Stage.
Actor Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, will headline Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Fifth Annual Valentine's Gala on February 14, 2014, at Germantown Performing Arts Center.
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For the past 22 years, one of the personal on-stage inspirations and models, perhaps the singular of these, has been Mark Rylance.
BY ANTHONY ISBELL When I was approached about directing Death of a Salesman for Theatre Memphis, I hesitated for a moment.
In this funny and searing family drama, Brooke Wyeth, a once promising novelist, returns home after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former Reagan inner circle, her brother, and her aunt.
I founded Tennessee Shakespeare Company in my hometown of Memphis in 2008 following many years of working as a stage actor, director, artist-manager, primarily in New England.
Actor Cherry Jones, always deeply affecting on stage in over 20 years of work in which I have seen her, has an uncanny ability to include her audience regardless of whether or not the play requests it.
The Orpheum Theatre's 2013-2014 Family Series welcomes Sid The Science Kid to the Orpheum Theatre on Friday, January 24 at 6:30 PM as Sid and his friends take audiences on a journey to discover the curiosities of the world.
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.
Due to inclement weather, the gala honoring Barry Fuller as Scrooge has been rescheduled for tonight, December 19, 2013.
On a cold winter's night in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine, it seems everyone is busy falling in and out of love.
Jillian Michaels, America's leading authority in health, wellness and fitness, brings her critically acclaimed motivational live tour 'Maximize Your Life' to The Orpheum Theatre on Friday, March 14, 2014.
Registration is open for Playhouse on the Square's Theatre School.
Charles Dickens' sentimental story of a miser's reform feels particularly bittersweet this year because 85-year-old stage veteran stage veteran Barry Fuller, who portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge when the show debuted at the old Theatre Memphis in 1978, has announced that this will be his final season in t
Playhouse on the Square and The Circuit Playhouse are open tonight.
Due to inclement weather, the gala honoring Barry Fuller as Scrooge has been rescheduled for December 19, 2013.
In the beginning, Touchstone released a 1992 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg.
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.
Once again, Stuart Little will jump off of the page and onto the Orpheum stage today, November 26 at 6:30 PM as the Orpheum Theatre's Family Series continues with this timeless classic.
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Sweeney Todd Playhouse on the Square (6/12-7/12) |
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Buddy Guy Graceland Soundstage (10/29-10/29) |
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Rent Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (10/29-11/01) |
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Yacht Rock Revue Graceland Soundstage (9/09-9/09) |
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Suffs The Orpheum Theatre Memphis (7/28-8/02) |
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Speed-the-Plow TheatreSouth (6/23-6/27) |
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Your Romeo TheatreWorks@TheSquare (7/10-7/26) |
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John and Jen TheatreSouth (6/24-6/28) |
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Continuum: A Faculty and Guest Artist Choreographed Dance Concert Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (11/20-11/22) |
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Titanic Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (4/22-4/25) |