MEMPHIS BLACK ARTS ALLIANCE

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! ...