The American Broadway musical has seen quite the evolution since the 1927 introduction of SHOWBOAT, widely considered the blueprint for using song and dance to advance a story’s plot. Over the years, audiences and technology have grown so sophisticated that 2025’s Tony Award winner for Best Musi…
What did our critic think of SUFFS at Orpheum Theatre Memphis?…
The 2025–2026 season at Playhouse on the Square could be summed up in one word: Renaissance. The overall quality of the productions, the size of the audiences, and the standard of excellence have all finally returned after suffering noticeably from the far‑reaching effects of the Covid pandemic.…
What did our critic think of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Orpheum Theatre Memphis?…
In this ever‑evolving technological revolution, people seem increasingly desperate to stand out. We now have 24/7 intimate access to what anyone, anywhere in the world is doing, thinking, or feeling. And in an almost futile attempt to feel special, hyperbolic language has become the norm.…
You likely learned the rhyme in school. If you are a history buff like I am, you know the names of each wife of King Henry VIII. And now this popular musical is back at the Orpheum, after first making HERstory in Memphis in November of 2023. Nearly 3 years later, the show is just as fun, just as vib…
Stephen King may be crowned the “King of Horror,” but his body of work stretches far beyond scares, encompassing dramatic classics like, “Stand By Me,” “The Green Mile” and “The Shawshank Redemption.” Audiences devour the novels, the films, or both—but notice what’s missing from …
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.…
What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Orpheum Theatre Memphis?…
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…
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Both a classic love story and a daring pop opera, Miss Saigon is the story of a Vietnamese girl and an American soldier who fall in love during the Vietnam War only to be separated during the fall of Saigon. They struggle to find each other over the years and when they finally...
Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, put it all on the line for their jobs, telling the toughest stories in the midst of war. Sarah is sidelined by injuries she sustained in a car bombing, but longs to get back to the action. James is relieved to have...
In the profound resolution to the drama that unfolds in Millennium Approaches, some characters are led to repentance, some find freedom in a new beginning, and others meet their destiny, unavoidably tied to the very thing they sought to escape. Perestroika is, “Extravagantly...
Tony Kushner’s daring and stunning epic follows the parallel struggles of two couples, one gay and one straight, as they attempt to reconcile morality and identity, love and justice, responsibility and freedom during the Reagan era as the AIDS epidemic spreads. Their lives are...
All-American small-town sweetheart Debbie Benton has one dream- to become a Texas Cowgirls Cheerleader. When she gets her big break, the only thing standing between her and success is the bus fare to Dallas. She and her friends get after-school jobs but when their jobs just...
In this musical based on the 1950 film, an aging silent film star longs to return to the big screen having faded from notoriety with the invention of “talkies”. When she meets a struggling Hollywood screenwriter, the two begin to work on a script to revive her career. The...
Written by Memphis native Katori Hall, The Mountaintop is a reimagining of the events of April 3rd, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has just returned to his room at The Lorraine Motel after giving one of his most memorable speeches. When a mysterious young woman visits his...
Three college students travel to Mississippi to work as civil rights activists during Freedom Summer in 1964. When the students vanish, seemingly without a trace, their families are drawn together as they cope with the loss. Over the next three decades, the connections between...
Twas the Night Before Christmas is the tale of Amos the mouse whose house gets missed by Santa. He and his two friends, an elf named Calliope and a spunky little girl, Emily, go to great lengths to ensure that Santa doesn?t miss him again. They set off on wild adventures that...
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Mean Girls Playhouse in the Square (8/21-9/13) |
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Speak, Salvation, Speak Hattiloo Theatre (8/13-9/06) |
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Clown Bar Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (9/24-9/26) |
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Titanic Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (4/22-4/25) |
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Rigoletto The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts (10/24-10/24) |
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Mozart’s The Secret Gardener (La finta giardiniera) The Morrow Lawn at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens (4/10-4/17) |
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Opera Memphis' 70th Anniversary Concert Overton Park Shell (10/10-10/10) |
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Leanne Morgan McKenzie Arena (10/24-10/24) |
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The Pirates of Penzance Germantown Performing Arts Center (2/12-2/14) |
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Emerge: New Student Dance Works Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Memphis (3/26-3/27) |
