by Kevin Shaw - March 03, 2026
Make this make sense: take a handful of successful Swedish pop songs from the 1970s, hand them to a British creative team to build a stage musical set on a Greek island, give it a commonly used Italian exclamation (“Mamma Mia!”), and watch it become an American phenomenon....
by AniKatrina Fageol - February 18, 2026
What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Orpheum Theatre Memphis?...
by Kevin Shaw - February 10, 2026
The city of Memphis is 63% African American. The nation’s first Black newspaper began here under the leadership of Ida B. Wells. The 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike brought Martin Luther King Jr. to this city, leading to his assassination and dramatically accelerating the national civil rights m...
by Kevin Shaw - February 08, 2026
What did our critic think of JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Playhouse On The Square?...
by AniKatrina Fageol - January 21, 2026
Memphis may be expecting a snowstorm but The Outsiders: A New Musical is heating things up at the Orpheum! ...
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Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen...
The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a...
Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney's The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story...
The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on...
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