NASHVILLE THEATER 101.5: Amber Boyer, Justin Boyd & Maryanna Clarke
Today, in our latest installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce three more members of our wildly divergent, almost prototypically dysfunctional theater family: Justin Boyd, Amber Boyer and Maryanna Clarke....
THE FRIDAY FIVE: JJ Rodgers from Actors Point's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
This week's spotlight focuses on JJ Rodgers, one of Music City's finest actresses, who opened this week in Hendersonville's Actors Point Theater Company's holiday season offering of It's A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play, directed by 2014 First Night Star Award winner Greg Wilson....
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Kaila Wooten
Our series continues this week with our first home-schooled actor, the lovely and talented Kaila Wooten, an amazingly talented and remarkably poised teenager who has been on stages throughout Middle Tennessee for much of her life and in 2013 was named a First Night Honors Most Promising Actor....
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Chambers Stevens Checks In
Today's spotlight falls upon Chambers Stevens, who defines the word "multi-hyphenate." (Seriously, look in a dictionary-they still make dictionaries, don't they?-and you'll find his headshot next to the word.) He is an actor-director-playwright-acting coach-producer-consultant-husband-and-father. An...
Lexy Baeza Talks 'RUDOLPH'
Santa Claus is coming to town! Or better yet, Rudolph. Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center hosts the touring production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer this week. Here at BroadwayWorld Nashville, we had the chance to interview Rudolph himself (or herself!), Lexy Baeza....
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: NYU's Delaney Amatrudo
One needn't be clairvoyant to sense that Delaney Amatrudo is destined for stardom; that's been evident, at the very least, since she was a middle schooler. For Nashville area audiences who have been lucky enough to see her live and onstage, it's very obvious that she possesses that ethereal quality ...
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Two Johns and a German
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...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Playwright/director Myra Stephens of BEING EBENEZER
Myra Stephens has had a busy week, as is wont to happen when tech week descends upon a production, so she can be forgiven for not completely understanding the five questions that comprise our Friday Five, a regular feature designed to introduce members of Tennessee's theater community to the world a...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: MBA's Jess Darnell
The talent pool is deep here, a fact exemplified by today's young actor featured in HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Jess Darnell, an 18-year-old senior at Nashville's Montgomery Bell Academy, who graduates next spring after already amassing an impressive theatrical resume....
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Lindy & Greg Pendzick
Lindy Pendzick and Greg Pendzick, who were resident company members at Crossville's Cumberland County Playhouse from 2010-13, are now co-cruise directors and headlining performers on the American Empress riverboat with the American Queen Riverboat Company....
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Lipscomb University's Tyler Russell
Among the leading students in the Fernandez and Baker-led Lipscomb theater program is Tyler Russell, a native of Vancouver, Washington, who has made an impact on local stages, starring as Marius in Lipscomb University Theatre's acclaimed production of Les Miserables in Fall 2013 and as Tony in the c...
Celebrating Christmas Onstage: What's Your Favorite Show?
Inspired by all the seasonal festivities that abound, we asked people in the theater community to share their favorite things to see onstage during the run-up to Christmas…...
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Patrick James, April Hardcastle-Miles & Matthew Hayes Hunter
Today, in our third installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce you to three more members of the Nashville theater family: Patrick James, April Hardcastle-Miles and Matthew Hayes Hunter. Our questions are fairly basic and to the point: Why do you do theater? And why do you choose Nashville, p...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Gina D'Arco's Wonderful Life
As time-and the fates-would have it, Gina D'Arco is back again! With today's feature, if memory serves, Gina is the first performer to do two Friday Fives for us. Have her answers changed? Just as her life has changed, so has her perspective, so of course you're going to learn something new about th...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Hume-Fogg's Karissa Wheeler
Charming and exuberant, Karissa is doing the whole senior year experience to the hilt, leading her classmates in their final year at one of the nation's leading high schools, and somehow finding time to pursue her passion of theater....
Collegiate Theatrics: Emma Jordan of Wright State University
Emma Jordan has been fated to live a life onstage. Growing up in her hometown of Dickson, she was acting on stages throughout Middle Tennessee, starring in shows at the Renaissance Center and appearing onstage at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theater. Now a senior at Ohio's Wright State University in Dayto...
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Hume-Fogg's Shawn Sookram Has His Moment in the Spotlight
This week, the High School Drama spotlight falls upon the tremendously versatile Shawn Sookram from Hume-Fogg Academic High School. Having just completed a run in the school's fall production of The King and I, earlier in 2014 he gave a stunning performance as the Emcee in Cabaret....
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Ashley Diggs, Tom Angland & Memory Strong
Today, in Nashville Theater 101, we're happy to introduce you to three members of our family: Ashley Michelle Diggs, Tom Angland and Memory Strong. We asked our actors some very basic questions-Why do you do theater? And why do you choose Nashville as your home base? This is how they answered....
BWW Interviews: ERIC L. WILLIAMS, A Life in the Theatre
Eric L. Williams is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who calls himself "an eternal student of his craft": acting. Most recently, he was onstage in Lakewood Theatre's production of The Outsiders, but he's also performed in a wide variety of works including Oedipus Rex, Jitney, The Dance on Widow's Ro...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Abigail Davis Haggard from The Keeton Theatre's CHRISTMAS CAROL
Our second spotlight of the week focuses on Abigail Davis Haggard, one of Music City's busiest actresses, who opens tonight in the Keeton Theatre's seasonal production of A Christmas Carol, the Musical, directed by Jamie London and music directed by Ginger Newman....
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Jason Ross from CCP's SCROOGE
Inspired by BroadwayWorld.com's Friday Six, welcome to BroadwayWorld Nashville's freshest installment of The Friday Five: five questions designed to help you learn more about the talented people you'll find onstage throughout the Volunteer state. This week's spotlight falls on Cumberland County Play...
BWW Interviews: WHITE CHRISTMAS' Jeremy Benton Hits the Road for the Holidays
Jeremy Benton is a journeyman actor, plying his trade all over the world, proving himself the consummate song and dance man in performances in countless theaters. Clearly, the charming and talented Benton has come a long way since he was dancing in his hometown of Springfield, Tennessee....
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA: Harley Seger of Christ Presbyterian Academy
We kick off this new series with the enormously talented, big-voiced Harley Seger, a 16-year-old junior at Christ Presbyterian Academy, who has been onstage for half her life. A stalwart of CPA theater under the direction of Paula Flautt, earlier this spring Harley was named best actress at the firs...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: TWAIN AND SHAW'S Brian Hill and Michael Roark
This week the spotlight falls on two actors who are sharing the stage in the Nashville premiere of 2012 First Night Honoree Chambers Stevens' Twain and Shaw Do Lunch, directed by veteran director Melissa Carelli: Brian Hill and Michael Roark, arguably two of Music City's finest actors, onstage toget...
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Get to know LILIES' Bradley Moore
After staking a claim on Nashville property with an amazingly varied slate of projects (Venus in Fur, A Chorus Line and an original musical revue skewering one of Tennessee's most infamous politicians, Bradley Moore returns to the stage tonight in the ACT 1 season-opening production of Lilies....
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast Orpheum Theatre (6/02-6/07) |
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Disney's Frozen Playhouse on the Square (11/13-12/20) |
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Come From Away Chattanooga Theatre Centre (9/01-9/30) |
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Gatsby Gala South Jackson Performing Arts Center (6/06-6/06) |
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Purpose The Circuit Playhouse (2/19-3/14) |
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1776 South Jackson Performing Arts Center (6/19-6/28) |
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Mary Poppins South Jackson Performing Arts Center (7/17-7/26) |
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The 49th Annual Art Auction Playhouse on the Square (4/24-4/24) |
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Frozen Chattanooga Theatre Centre (7/17-8/02) |
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An Enemy of the People The Circuit Playhouse (9/11-10/04) |
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