BWW Review: MOTOWN Slays 'em in Music City
It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that on Tuesday night, February 16, Music City officially fell in love with Motown.
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BWW Review: Nashville Rep's GOOD MONSTERS
Make no mistake: Nate Eppler is far too good a playwright to remain Nashville theater's best-kept secret for much longer.
BWW Review: Nashville Ballet's 2016 ATTITUDE Series
Without doubt, excessive exaggeration or hyperbole, Nashville is a veritable 'city of dreams,' a place where creativity thrives and collaboration is a way of life.
BWW Review: Towne Centre's BLACK TIE BROADWAY
Luckily, for audiences of Towne Centre Theatre's 2016 season-opening Black Tie Broadway, an original revue conceived by director/arranger John Ray, they are offered two hours of entertainment given a luxe treatment by a 13-member cast who are having a swell time singing the best of musical theater.
BWW Review: The Gaslight's IF THE SHOE FITS
No matter how hackneyed and corny the script, if you have an experienced ensemble of actors who are adept at physical comedy, who have perfected their timing through years onstage and who are relatively fearless in their approach to a script (any script, most likely), chances are you can deliver a s
BWW Review: The Collective's SHOWSTOPPERS
There's nothing like a good musical revue - replete with well-chosen songs, performed by a talented coterie of professional performers who are ably supported by a cast of fresh-faced youngsters showing off their burgeoning talents in concert with their more seasoned counterparts - and The Collective
BWW Review: Theater Bug's 7 WAYS TO SUNDAY
Dealing with the heretofore difficult to discuss subjects of teenaged depression and suicide, 7 Ways to Sunday opens up a necessary dialogue that is sure to save lives (regardless of how melodramatic that sounds, could one come to any other realization after experiencing the altogether life-changing
BWW Review: MATILDA THE MUSICAL Dazzles in Nashville
Can there be a better way to capture Matilda's spirit so evocatively than in a sparkling new work for the musical theater? A musical journey through which we can chart her soulful, heartfelt ascent into a literary hierarchy in which readers can live vicariously? Matilda's forays into a fictional wor
BWW Review: Circle Players' SISTER ACT, THE MUSICAL
LaToya Gardner adds yet another theatrical conquest to her already impressive resume: Sister Mary Clarence/Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act, the musical theater version of the Whoopi Goldberg film that has delighted audiences since its debut in 1992, inspiring one sequel (with maybe another on the
BWW Review: Chambers Stevens' IT'S WHO YOU KNOW
Tennesseans come from a long line of storytellers - it's in our collective DNA, it seems, what with the state being home to the National Storytelling Festival, among other things - and Chambers Stevens (the 2012 First Night Honoree who co-founded Nashville Shakespeare Festival) is no different.
BWW Review: Keeton Theatre's 1940s RADIO CHRISTMAS CAROL
It's that thematic power of hope and reconciliation that plays out so evocatively on theater stages throughout the world at this time of year, urging each of us on to our revelry during this hectic, oftentimes trying and crazy time of the year.
BWW Review: Mel O'Drama's COUSIN CLEETUS Plays Printers Alley
Just in time for the holiday season, the company's original 'musical comedy dinner show,' writer Curtis Reed's Cousin Cleetus' Country Christmas is onstage through the end of 2015, offering audiences a tuneful, if sometimes tone-deaf, holiday extravaganza not unlike a Christmastime television specia
BWW Review: ACCC's A TUNA CHRISTMAS
But there are those Christmas-themed shows that we're delighted to see no matter the time or place.
BWW Review: THE TWELVE DATES OF CHRISTMAS
Rebekah Durham is not Reese Witherspoon, so no one is paying her a million bucks to star in some holiday-themed rom com - but make no mistake about it, they damn well oughta be! But for now, Nashville theater-goers are the lucky ones; we get to see her onstage in Tennessee Women's Theater Project's
BWW Review: Actor's Bridge Ensemble's THE NETHER
Leave it to the ambitious and creative people of Nashville's Actors Bridge Ensemble to continue the celebration of the company's 20th anniversary season with the presentation of a new and compelling play – The Nether by Jennifer Haley – which ushers audiences into the dystopian world that has ev
BWW Review: Belmont University Musical Theatre's WHITE CHRISTMAS
All this yuletide revelry to which I am alluding comes courtesy of BUMT's latest production: Irving Berlin's White Christmas, the onstage updating of the 1954 film version that features a score of the master musician's finest songs as it tells the story of two song-and-dance men and their female cou
BWW Review: Nashville Rep's A CHRISTMAS STORY
In a city like Nashville, where art and creativity thrives, there really is nothing more heartwarming and welcome at this time of year than the onstage theatrical traditions we have come to love, like Nashville Repertory Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Story, the stage iteration of the cl
BWW Review: Gaslight's MR. JINGLE'S CHRISTMAS CLAUSE
Theater during the holiday season tends to be something of a mixed bag: multiple productions of A Christmas Carol, countless stagings of It's A Wonderful Life, numerous renditions of The Nutcracker and a sampling of original revues that include songs suitable for the season and heart-tugging and oft
BWW Review: Bushfield's YULE, Y'ALL at Chaffin's Barn
You can be certain that during this time of year, I'm making my way to various and sundry theaters to witness the latest Christmaslike offerings from companies large and small, but after last season's A Country Christmas, Carol - playwright/actress Lydia Bushfield's uniquely fun take on the Charles
BWW Review: Springhouse Theatre's THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
How wonderful is it that a song can usher in all sorts of memories - perhaps of your first kiss, driving in a car along a dusty country road, or of people once-loved, still-loved, who are no longer a part of your life - to flood your mind, fill your heart and to transport you, as if by magic, to som
BWW Review: BULLETS OVER BROADWAY is Boffo in Music City
Gimme a chorus line of gorgeous girls with gams up to here, a tap-dancing mob of darkly handsome wise guys, a serious lady of the theater whose teeth marks may be found all around a stage set - place them amid a whimsical and altogether unbelievable plot as thin as the best of the old-time movie mus
BWW Review: ACT 1's AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Might I offer some perhaps unsolicited advice? If you are dreading the upcoming holidays - Thanksgiving is just under three weeks away and Christmas is fast on its heels - and the typical upheaval precipitated by a trip 'over the river and through the woods' into the bosom of your family's particula
BWW Review: Davis Shines as THE BELLE OF AMHERST
Caroline Davis' tour-de-force performance as American poet Emily Dickinson distinguishes the current production of William Luce's The Belle of Amherst - onstage through November 22 at The Filming Station Downtown, in a delightful revival helmed by veteran director Melissa Carrelli - and, clearly, is
BWW Review: Circle Players' OF MICE AND MEN
In Of Mice and Men, writer John Steinbeck relates the tale of two lifelong friends whose hard-scrabble lives are played out against the backdrop of the Great Depression: two men whose bleak existence is made even more challenging by the cruel realities of the world at that time.
BWW Review: Lipscomb University's INTO THE WOODS
If you need something to prod you toward making reservations to see Lipscomb University's staging of the near-legendary Into the Woods - although we find it hard to believe anyone could not want to hear that wondrous score once more - we are happy to give you that prompt: Sarah Zanotti's performance
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Moon Over Buffalo Tellico Community Playhouse (9/03-9/20) |
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The Best Gift: A Christmas Carol Musical Ramsey Theatre Company (12/05-12/06) |
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An Enemy of the People The Circuit Playhouse (9/11-10/04) |
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Disney's Frozen Playhouse on the Square (11/13-12/20) |
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Purpose The Circuit Playhouse (2/19-3/14) |
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Come From Away Chattanooga Theatre Centre (9/01-9/30) |
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Jekyll & Hyde Hendersonville Performing Arts Company (9/17-10/04) |
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Ain't Too Proud Playhouse on the Square (3/26-4/18) |
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The Night Shift Before Christmas The Circuit Playhouse (11/20-12/20) |
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Gunhild Carling at City Winery Nashville City Winery Nashville (11/01-11/01) |