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Photo Coverage: Music Industry Veteran Hazel Smith Honored at Inaugural Music Row Storytellers Event
by A.A. Cristi - Nashville

(08/16/2016) - Music industry veteran Hazel Smith was honored Monday, August 15 at the first-ever Music Row Storytellers event, an evening benefiting Music Health Alliance, sponsored by CMT.

Photo Flash: Tim Atwood's 'Old Time Religion' Album Release Picnic
by A.A. Cristi - Nashville

(08/15/2016) - Several Grand Ole Opry performers mingled with fans, when veteran pianist Tim Atwood celebrated his new album with an old-fashioned after-church picnic in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on Sunday, August 14. Atwood, who was the pianist for the Opry's house band for 38 years, has released 'That Old Time Religion' (i2i Records), his first gospel album since leaving the Opry in 2014.

Photo Coverage: Keeton Theatre's THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(04/07/2016) - Britt Byrd takes on the challenging role of Carnelle Scott - and Nashville photographer Jenny Petit Steiner has the pictures to prove it - in The Larry Keeton Theatre's upcoming production of Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest, running at the Donelson theater April 14-30 - the first presentation of a non-musical at The Keeton in quite some time, according to producer Jamie London.

Photo Coverage: The 2015 First Night Honors, part 5
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(09/30/2015) - With almost 400 people in the audience, the leading lights of Tennessee theater were heralded with the presentation of the 2015 First Night Honors Gala, Sunday night at the iconic and historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre in Nashville. Hosted by Geoff Davin, Stephanie Jones-Benton and Erica Patterson, the event featured musical numbers by more than 100 performers in tribute to the Class of 2015 Honorees.

Photo Coverage: 2015 FIRST NIGHT HONORS, part 4
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(09/22/2015) - With almost 400 people in the audience, the leading lights of Tennessee theater were heralded with the presentation of the 2015 First Night Honors Gala, Sunday night at the iconic and historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre in Nashville. Hosted by Geoff Davin, Stephanie Jones-Benton and Erica Patterson, the event featured musical numbers by more than 100 performers in tribute to the Class of 2015 Honorees.

Photo Coverage: 2015 FIRST NIGHT HONORS, part 3
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(09/22/2015) - With almost 400 people in the audience, the leading lights of Tennessee theater were heralded with the presentation of the 2015 First Night Honors Gala, Sunday night at the iconic and historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre in Nashville. Hosted by Geoff Davin, Stephanie Jones-Benton and Erica Patterson, the event featured musical numbers by more than 100 performers in tribute to the Class of 2015 Honorees.

Photo Coverage: THE 2015 FIRST NIGHT HONORS
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(09/22/2015) - With almost 400 people in the audience, the leading lights of Tennessee theater were heralded with the presentation of the 2015 First Night Honors Gala, Sunday night at the iconic and historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre in Nashville. Hosted by Geoff Davin, Stephanie Jones-Benton and Erica Patterson, the event featured musical numbers by more than 100 performers in tribute to the Class of 2015 Honorees.

Photo Coverage: 2015 FIRST NIGHT HONORS, part 2
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(09/22/2015) - With almost 400 people in the audience, the leading lights of Tennessee theater were heralded with the presentation of the 2015 First Night Honors Gala, Sunday night at the iconic and historic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre in Nashville. Hosted by Geoff Davin, Stephanie Jones-Benton and Erica Patterson, the event featured musical numbers by more than 100 performers in tribute to the Class of 2015 Honorees.

Photo Coverage: Sneak Peek at THE SOUND OF MUSIC National Tour Meet & Greet Starring Ashley Brown, Ben Davis and More!
by Walter McBride - Broadway

(09/03/2015) - A brand new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, hits the road for a national tour. This lavish new production launches this September at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, under the auspices of the Center Theatre Group, and will then tour North America for multiple seasons, playing multi-week and week-long engagements.  BroadwayWorld brings you shots of the meet and greet below!

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of AMERICAN IDIOT at Circle Players
by BWW News Desk - Nashville

(08/07/2015) - Circle Players present the Tony Award-winning hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT, based on Green Day's GRAMMY Award-winning multi-platinum album, featuring music by Green Day, lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong, and book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer. The show runs August 20-30, 2015 at the Tennessee State University Strange Performing Arts Center's Cox-Lewis Theater, located on Alameda Street on TSU campus). Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Photo Coverage: THE 2015 FIRST NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(07/28/2015) - More than 150 people gathered at Nashville's venerable Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre Monday night for the announcement of honorees and award winners for the 2015 First Night Honors. Preview Party celebrants were treated to a bountiful buffet of entertainment as cast members from several musicals currently on the boards or upcoming on Middle Tennessee stages performed numbers from their shows.

Photo Coverage: The Class of 2015 First Night Honorees
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(07/28/2015) - Nine individuals who have taken leading roles in making live theater in Tennessee better and more magical have been named as members of the Class of 2015 Honorees for The First Night Honors, the annual celebration of all things theatrical held in Nashville every September.

Photo Flash: Tullahoma Theatre's RENT Continues Amid Controversy
by Sally Henry Fuller - Broadway

(07/18/2015) - BroadwayWorld has just obtained photos from the recently buzzed about production of RENT in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Presented by the South Jackson Civic Center's Performing Arts for Children and Teens, the show has met with local religious opposition, as first reported on Director of the Arts Integrity Initiative at the New School for Drama, Howard Sherman's blog. Check out the snapshots below!

Photo Coverage: Sideshow Fringe SATURDAY 2014
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(07/11/2015) - Nashville's acclaimed Sideshow Fringe Festival gets under way next Thursday, so what better way to get ready for this year's event than by looking back at 2014's Saturday morning and evening events, captured in a series of photographs by Wesley Duffee-Braun. If 2014 looked this good...can you imagine what 2015 is gonna look like?

Photo Coverage: Sideshow Fringe 2014 FRIDAY
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(07/10/2015) - Nashville's acclaimed Sideshow Fringe Festival gets under way next Thursday, so what better way to get ready for this year's event than by looking back at 2014's Friday night events, captured in a series of photographs by Wesley Duffee-Braun. If 2014 looked this good...can you imagine what 2015 is gonna look like?

Photo Coverage: Sideshow Fringe 2014 Thursday
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(07/09/2015) - Nashville's acclaimed Sideshow Fringe Festival gets under way next Thursday, so what better way to get ready for this year's event than by looking back at 2014's opening night events, captured in a series of photographs by Wesley Duffee-Braun. If 2014 looked this good...what does 2015 have in store?

Cumberland County Playhouse, Scopes Fest's FRONT PAGE NEWS Coming to Dayton
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(06/25/2015) - Following last year's successful run, Cumberland County Playhouse and the Scopes Trial Festival of Dayton, Tennessee, will once again co-produce Front Page News: Dayton and the World-Famous Scopes Trial, July 17-26, presented in the famous courtroom where Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan battled in 1925.

Photo Coverage: Melinda Doolittle Hosts 2015 NMTA at Lipscomb University
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(05/13/2015) - Cookeville High School's production of West Side Story claimed top honors - the award for Best Show of 2014/15 - last Saturday at the second annual Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards, presented at Lipscomb University's Collins Alumni Auditorium and hosted by Melinda Doolittle.

Photo Flash: First Look at Diana DeGarmo as 'Dorothy' in Studio Tenn's THE WIZARD OF OZ
by Tyler Peterson - Broadway

(05/12/2015) - After wrapping up the highly-acclaimed JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT tour, which she co-starred in alongside husband Ace Young, Diana DeGarmo will lead the cast of Studio Tenn's upcoming production of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Below, check out a first look at the stage and AMERICAN IDOL veteran in costume, which she posted to Instagram just earlier today!

Jeremy Benton Directs SWEET SWING! Reading in New York 4/20
by Jeffrey Ellis - Off-Broadway

(04/15/2015) - Broadway triple threat Jeremy Benton adds the role of 'developing director' to his already laudable resume when he stages an upcoming industry reading of the new musical, Sweet Swing!, in New York City next week. Benton directs and choreographs the six-person musical, which has book and music by Diane Tauser (Notre Dame de Paris and Stone Cold Beauty), and tells the real story of a wartime romance during World War Two.

Photo Flash: Sneak Peek - Circle Players To Heat It Up With PICNIC
by BWW News Desk - Nashville

(03/18/2015) - In its 65th season, Middle Tennessee's oldest community theater company presents a challenging new revival of playwright William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about repressed desires and haunting recriminations: Picnic. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Photo Coverage: Street Theatre Company's MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(03/13/2015) - Photographer Kenn Stilger and Heavnly Perspective Photography have captured some gorgeous photographic images of Street Theatre Company's production of Memphis the Musical, which opens at Bailey STEM Middle School in Nashville tonight.

Photo Coverage: Lakewood Theatre's ASHLAND FALLS
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(02/24/2015) - A school receives a mysterious script about a girl who died long ago. The director disappears. A new director arrives just in time and knows all about the story of the play. In fact, she seems to know it too well. And how did she get the dead girl's ring? Are the students of Herbert Hoover High too wrapped up in miscues, awful accents, and stolen boyfriends to notice? Revenge is coming. Who will pay the price when the real world and the play collide?

Photo Coverage: University School of Nashville's THE ADDING MACHINE
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(02/13/2015) - Elmer Rice's play The Adding Machine premiered on Broadway in 1923, yet it speaks to the issues of the day: mechanization, corporation, immigration, sexism and bigotry--all at the expense of the individual human being. Fast foward: 2015. Nearly 100 years later, we're still there. So says Catherine Coke, director of The Adding Machine at University School of Nashville.

Photo Coverage: Lipscomb Theatre's SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(02/12/2015) - Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On this Island and Ragtime) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination--Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus Mcgurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

Photo Coverage: Springhouse Theatre's SABRINA FAIR
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(02/12/2015) - Opening Friday night in Smyrna, Sabrina Fair is the perfect show to warm those cold winter nights. Featuring a wonderful cast, beautiful period costumes of the 1950s, delightful wit, and a love story that is part Cinderella, part Oscar Wilde, and part Love Actually this is a show you don't want to miss.

Photo Flash: RIVER SONG: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Premieres in Greeneville
by Sally Henry Fuller - Nashville

(01/25/2015) - The latest production, 'River Song: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' premiered to a packed house, January 23 and 24.

Midwinter's First Night Taps Nashville Rep, Boiler Room Theatre, ACT 1
by Jeffrey Ellis - Nashville

(01/13/2015) - Bawdy, irreverent, perhaps even unhinged: What better way to describe Midwinter's First Night? Held Sunday night at Backstage at the Barn, the intimate cabaret theater at Nashville's iconic Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre, the slightly offbeat, decidedly more casual younger sibling of The First Night Honors focused on the fun, while honoring some of Middle Tennessee's best and brightest with First Night Awards.

BWW Interviews: Kalen Allmandinger and Patrick Newton of BLUE MAN GROUP at Tennessee Performing Arts Center
by Chuck Beard - Nashville

(01/06/2015) - Whether or not you are a sports fan for either of the professional Nashville sports teams, I'd like to be the first to prepare you for a possible sighting of a man or two performing off-Broadway with blue paint on their faces. However, these blue men aren't playing by the same rules. Let me just state the obvious, the Tennessee Titans have absolutely nothing on the Blue Man Group (BMG) returning to Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center with a new theatrical touring production. For this week only, the entirely new, high-impact visual performance will wow Nashvillians like never before in Andrew Jackson Hall. Here at BroadwayWorld Nashville, we had the chance to interview not one but two touring Blue Man professionals.

Photo Coverage: CHICAGO Kicks Off 16th U.S. Tour With Post-Performance Party at Marti's
by Oliver Oliveros - San Francisco / Bay Area

(10/13/2014) - Cocktails named after some of the show stopping musical numbers from the smash Broadway musical CHICAGO greeted the cast, crew, and guests at a post-performance party at Marti's, a bistro in the French Quarter, late Tuesday night. CHICAGO's current tour cast, headlined by Bianca Marroquin (Roxie Hart), Terra C. MacLeod (Velma Kelly), John O'Hurley (Billy Flynn in select cities), Jacob Keith Watson (Amos Hart), Roz Ryan (Matron 'Mama' Morton), and C. Newcomer (Mary Sunshine), kicked off CHICAGO's 16th U.S. Tour at the newly reopened atmospheric theatre in NOLA, the 2,736-seater Saenger Theatre along Canal Street, with a rapturous standing ovation from a packed audience earlier that evening.

Photo Flash: NASHVILLE Stars Sam Palladio and Chaley Rose Visit ONCE on Tour
by BWW News Desk - Nashville

(09/17/2014) - Sam Palladio (Gunnar Scott) and Chaley Rose (Zoey Dalton) from ABC's hit TV show NASHVILLE visited the Once tour at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center last night, September 16. Scroll down for photos of Palladio and Rose with tour cast members Stuart Ward (Guy) and Dani de Waal (Girl)!

Photo Flash: First Look at CABARET at Franklin Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Nashville

(07/29/2014) - CABARET comes to the Franklin Theatre this Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 5:00pm. Directed by Sondra Morton, CABARET features Musical Direction by Jamey Green and Choreography by Lauri Gregoire. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Photo Flash: Casting Announced for Playhouse Nashville's Production of SCARECROWS WILL NEVER SEE THE SUNSET
by Courtnie Mele - Nashville

(07/19/2014) - Playhouse Nashville has quickly established itself in the local theatre landscape on the strength of productions described by reviewers as "wickedly funny" (SEXTAPE & OTHER STORIES), "stunning" (DEVIL SEDAN), and "devastatingly honest" (ULTRASOUND). That well-earned reputation for eliciting memorable performances from talented actors working on original material continues with the newly announced ensemble for SCARECROWS WILL NEVER SEE THE SUNSET.

Photo Flash: First Look at SEUSSICAL at the Franklin Theatre
by BWW News Desk - Nashville

(07/16/2014) - SEUSSICAL comes to the Franklin Theatre this Saturday and Sunday for four shows. The musical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that is fun for the whole family! BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Photo Flash: The Franklin Theatre Presents SEUSSICAL for Two Days Only, 7/19-20
by Courtnie Mele - Nashville

(06/27/2014) - The Act Too Players (ATP), Williamson County's premier training program for all youths interested in the performing arts will take the stage in June with the production of SEUSSICAL. The productions will run from July 19th and July 20th at the historic Franklin Theatre located in Downtown Franklin, Tennessee.




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