COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Marymount Manhattan's Blake Marshall
It will enable you to someday say that you, too, "knew them when"…like Brentwood's Blake Marshall, a graduate of Franklin High School now in the middle of his freshman year at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City...
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Brooke Leigh Davis & Robert Coles
Why do you do theater? We've been putting that question to members of the Nashville theater famiy for the past month to find out what it is that motivates creative types to pursue an illusory and challenging career, while for others the theater gives them a creative avocation that helps keep them sa...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Brentwood High's Cameron Bortz
What is it about theater kids that make them special? What's that indefinable quality that sets them apart from other teenagers? To my way of thinking, theater kids have more poise than the average high school student, an ability to talk to anyone they meet with confidence and razor-sharp focus. At ...
KINKY BOOTS: Ghee & Piscitelli Team Up To Bring LOLA To Life
If the theme of Kinky Boots the Musical - opening tonight at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center - is 'just be who you wanna be,' then you can rest assured that both J. Harrison Ghee and Mikey Piscitelli are living every moment of their lives with that as their motto....
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Bethany Langford & Tim Larson
Today, in our latest installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce two more members of our wildly divergent, almost prototypically dysfunctional theater family: directors Bethany Langford and Tim Larson, both of whom have been represented by productions onstage of recent vintage....
BWW Interviews: Kenny Morris Talks KINKY BOOTS at Tennessee Performing Arts Center
An accomplished actor, Kenny Morris plays Mr. Price in touring production of Kinky Boots. He has graciously agreed to take the time to answer some questions for our readers at Broadway World Nashville....
KINKY BOOTS' Harvey Fierstein
As Kinky Boots continues its national tour, which sets down roots in Nashville for a week's worth of performances at TPAC starting Tuesday, February 3, Harvey Fierstein talks about the journey of the musical and his collaboration with Cyndi Lauper and Jerry Mitchell…...
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Belmont University's Ashley Glore
Ashley Glore, who was graduated from Nashville's Belmont University last May, has quickly made a name for herself on area stages with her acclaimed performances in such shows as Closer at Bongo After Hours Theatre, Theatre With Chldren at Play Theatre Company and Seascape With Sharks and Dancer for ...
BWW Interviews: KINKY BOOTS' Jerry Mitchell
One of Broadway's quintessential renaissance men, Jerry Mitchell talked about the genesis of Kinky Boots the Musical and his unique collaboration with Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Hume Fogg's Ray Gleaves
Today, we introduce you to Hume-Fogg Academic High School senior Ray Gleaves, a 17-year-old senior who's been an integral member of Daron Bruce's theater productions, as well as a four year member of the school concert choir (he's serving as president this year), a three year member of The Blue Note...
KINKY BOOTS IN MUSIC CITY: Cyndi Lauper On Composing A Tony Winner
First-time Broadway composer Cyndi Lauper, who first conquered the music charts back in the 1980s, recently sat down to talk about her Kinky Boots experience and to share the show's impact on her own life - which provided much of her inspiration as she approached the project....
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Lipscomb University's Emily Hughes
As hard as it may be to fathom, the calendar indicates we're practically to February already and 2015 is off and running like some out-of-control roller coaster. Perhaps no one is more acutely aware of this than Emily Hughes, an acting major at Nashville's Lipscomb University, who no sooner than she...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: CPA'S Holly Hill
This week we introduce you to one of Paula Flautt's outstanding actors: Holly Hill, an 18-year-old senior at Christ Presbyterian Academy, who is busy doing her college auditions while preparing for what could well be the most challenging role any young actress could aspire to: Mary Poppins in CPA's ...
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: James Rudolph & Shawn Knight
Why do you do theater? We've been putting that question to members of the Nashville theater famiy for the past month to find out what it is that motivates creative types to pursue an illusory and challenging career, while for others the theater gives them a creative avocation that helps keep them sa...
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Boston Conservatory's James Spencer Dean
One of Nashville's favorite young actors is quickly growing up. As a teenager, he was onstage for countless area theater companies, but now he's known as James Spencer Dean and he's pursuing his bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theater at The Boston Conservatory. Who'd have thought that Spenc...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Joy Tilley Perryman, y'all
Oh, that wacky and wily Joy Tilley Perryman…she's one of Nashville's favorite comedic actors and tonight she assays another Del Shores role as she opens Daddy's Dyin'…Who's Got the Will? for ACT 1 at the Darkhorse Theater. Because of that, she has our Friday Five spotlight focused squarely on he...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Hume-Fogg's Jessie Gholson
This week we introduce the lovely and graceful Jessie Gholson, a 17-year-old senior at Hume-Fogg Academic High School. She recently completed a run in the school's fall production of The King and I, playing the leading role of Anna Leonowens. Her previous roles at HFA include Amber Von Tussle in Hai...
THE FRIDAY FIVE (on Thursday!): RAGTIME's Erica Patterson
Inspired by BroadwayWorld.com's Friday Six, welcome to BroadwayWorld Nashville's latest installment of The Friday Five (on Thursday!): five questions designed to help you learn more about the talented people you'll find onstage throughout the Volunteer state. This week the spotlight shines one day e...
THE FRIDAY FIVE (on Thursday!): RAGTIME's David Arnold
Inspired by BroadwayWorld.com's Friday Six, welcome to BroadwayWorld Nashville's latest installment of The Friday Five (on Thursday!): five questions designed to help you learn more about the talented people you'll find onstage throughout the Volunteer state. This week the spotlight shines one day e...
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Belmont University's Lauren Knoop
Lauren Knoop, a Nashville native, is currently a senior at Belmont University, pursuing her BFA degree in theatre performance in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the university that has helped to transform the term "academic theater" into something far more substantial than it once may have be...
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: The Gurleys and Tamiko
Today, in our latest installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce three more members of our wildly divergent, almost prototypically dysfunctional theater family: Tamiko S. Robinson, Nan Gurley and Wayne Gurley....
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Austin Ryan Hunt of Nashville Shakes' TWELFTH NIGHT
This week the spotlight shines on Austin Ryan Hunt, who not only just started the final semester of his senior year at Lipscomb University, but was also among the opening night cast for Nashville Shakespeare Festival's winter season offering of Twelfth Night....
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Hillsboro High's Brayden Myrick
In today's installment of High School Drama, the spotlight falls on a young man who exemplifies the term 'renaissance man': Brayden Myrick of Nashville's Hillsboro High School....
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Michael Bouson and Joe Correll
Today's spotlight falls upon Michael Bouson and Joe Correll, two of the loveliest people I've ever known. Creative and imaginative, they brought their hilarious hijinks to the stage when they founded The Avante Garage Comedy Repertory Theatre, a comedy improv/musical theater company that set stages ...
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Lipscomb University's Jonah Jackson
Among those young actors is Lipscomb University's Jonah Jackson, a native of Shelbyville, Tennessee, and a candidate for a bachelor of fine arts with an acting major. A 2014 First Night Most Promising Actor, among his many credits are Lord Farquaad in Shrek: the Musical (Lipscomb University and Circ...
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