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The course of love definitely does NOT run smooth when William Shakespeare's family-friendly comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' plays on the Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage tonight, February 19 through March 8, 2015.

Frigid temperatures that have accompanied this week's ice and snow throughout the South continues to wreak havoc on performance schedules at Middle Tennessee theaters, with some companies already cancelling performances Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and even one Thursday night performance already sh

In its first regional Tennessee performance since its National tour, the Broadway smash hit MEMPHIS comes to Nashville.

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center announces the cancellation of this evening's, Wednesday February 18, performance of the national tour of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, previously scheduled for 7:30 p.

Due to changing weather conditions, the Thursday, February 19 Preview performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream has been cancelled.

Today, our spotlight falls on Johnson West, one of the most likable actors to ever walk onto a Nashville stage.

When I saw Nashville Repertory Theatre's production of The Whipping Man last weekend, one of the first things that I noticed was the amazing set design.

The War Memorial Auditorium announces the cancellation of tonight's scheduled performance by Dr.

Disney Theatrical Productions and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center announce that the Tony Award-winning smash hit musical, NEWSIES, will make its Nashville debut with a limited one-week engagement at TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall, May 26-31.

As the touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat makes its way to Nashville this week, I've taken the chance to interview the dance captain and swing of the production, David Rossetti.

Make no mistake about it: Rachel Woods is a remarkable young woman.

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center announced today the cancellation of tomorrow evening's (February 17), performance of the national tour of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, previously scheduled for 7:30 p.

In a town where everyone from your next-door neighbor to your favorite barista - from your dental hygienist to your manicurist, your seatmate on the bus, your friendly neighborhood bartender and maybe even the guy who does your taxes - is a songwriter, you'll find that there's never a shortage of op

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.

Nashville Repertory Theatre will present its newest production Death of a Salesman, the classic, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

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.

Opening Friday night in Smyrna, Sabrina Fair is the perfect show to warm those cold winter nights.

Today, we celebrate the birthday of Emily Whitlow, a 17-year-old (or is she 18 today?) student at Ravenwood High School in neighboring Williamson County.

The Wetumpka Depot Players of Wetumpka, Alabama and South City Players of Alabaster, Alabama are proud to announce that their collaborative production of 'night, Mother has won the honor of performing at AACTFest Region IV festival presented by the Southeastern Theatre Conference to be held at the

The Kennedy Center and Nashville Children's Theatre present the world premiere musical production of Jack's Tale: A Mythic Mountain Musical Adventure February 14 and 15 in the Family Theater.

Today, our focus is on one of our favorites: Stephanie Jones-Benton, one of Nashville's favorite musical theater stars, a Nashville native and a graduate of Belmont University's musical theater program.

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

Gina D'Arco and Taylor Novak will lead the cast of William Inge's Picnic, in a revival of the classic play helmed by Jeffrey Ellis, for Nashville's Circle Players, which this season celebrates its 65th year of bringing live theater to audiences throughout Middle Tennessee.

Eddie George, actor.

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