NASHVILLE THEATER 101: The Gurleys and Tamiko
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 12, 2015
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 12, 2015
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.
BWW Reviews: Nashville Shakes' TWELFTH NIGHT Casts Off Winter's Chill
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 09, 2015
Denice Hicks' vision for Twelfth Night warmly ingratiates itself with the fluidity of its presentation, enacted by a delightful cast of NSF veterans and newcomers who envelop their audience with genuinely high-spirited good feelings sure to thaw the most frozen of hearts.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 09, 2015
Denice Hicks' vision for Twelfth Night warmly ingratiates itself with the fluidity of its presentation, enacted by a delightful cast of NSF veterans and newcomers who envelop their audience with genuinely high-spirited good feelings sure to thaw the most frozen of hearts.
BWW Reviews: BLUE MAN GROUP
by Cara Richardson - January 09, 2015
The Blue Man Group tour has made a stop in Nashville this week. Tennessee Performing Arts Center hosts the inventive show, that is full of eye-popping and mouth dropping performances…or skits….or just a 90 minute, non-stop spectacle. Think I'm complete inept when it comes to trying to describe Blue Man Group? I am. But the Blue Man Group's own website says the show is "impossible to describe."
by Cara Richardson - January 09, 2015
The Blue Man Group tour has made a stop in Nashville this week. Tennessee Performing Arts Center hosts the inventive show, that is full of eye-popping and mouth dropping performances…or skits….or just a 90 minute, non-stop spectacle. Think I'm complete inept when it comes to trying to describe Blue Man Group? I am. But the Blue Man Group's own website says the show is "impossible to describe."
THE FRIDAY FIVE: Austin Ryan Hunt of Nashville Shakes' TWELFTH NIGHT
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 09, 2015
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 09, 2015
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
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 08, 2015
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 08, 2015
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.
Pulitzer Winner Donald Margulies to Join Nashville Rep for 1/13-14 'REPaloud'
by BWW News Desk - January 07, 2015
Nashville Repertory Theatre's REPaloud (Reading Excellent Plays Aloud) series continues with a special staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Dinner with Friends on January 13 and 14, 2015, including a talkback with playwright and 2014-15 Ingram New Works Fellow Donald Margulies on January 14.
by BWW News Desk - January 07, 2015
Nashville Repertory Theatre's REPaloud (Reading Excellent Plays Aloud) series continues with a special staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Dinner with Friends on January 13 and 14, 2015, including a talkback with playwright and 2014-15 Ingram New Works Fellow Donald Margulies on January 14.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Michael Bouson and Joe Correll
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 07, 2015
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 afire throughout Music City, introducing some of the region's best-loved performers to audiences who still remember every joke, every laugh and every song. Now living in Los Angeles, where they are both involved in television production, Michael and Joe made a triumphant return to Nashville in late August, when they were saluted at The First Night Honors of 2014.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 07, 2015
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 afire throughout Music City, introducing some of the region's best-loved performers to audiences who still remember every joke, every laugh and every song. Now living in Los Angeles, where they are both involved in television production, Michael and Joe made a triumphant return to Nashville in late August, when they were saluted at The First Night Honors of 2014.
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: Lipscomb University's Jonah Jackson
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 06, 2015
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 Circle Players), Roscoe Dexter in Singin' in the Rain (Springhouse Theatre) and A-Rab in West Side Story (Lipscomb University). Just over the horizon for 2015, he has the roles of General Genghis Khan Schmitz in Seussical and Gerry in Dancing at Lughnasa on tap.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 06, 2015
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 Circle Players), Roscoe Dexter in Singin' in the Rain (Springhouse Theatre) and A-Rab in West Side Story (Lipscomb University). Just over the horizon for 2015, he has the roles of General Genghis Khan Schmitz in Seussical and Gerry in Dancing at Lughnasa on tap.
BWW Interviews: Kalen Allmandinger and Patrick Newton of BLUE MAN GROUP at Tennessee Performing Arts Center
by Chuck Beard - January 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.
by Chuck Beard - January 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.
'Irreverent and Fun' Midwinter's First Night Set for 1/11/15
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 05, 2015
It's back and it's this Sunday, January 11: Midwinter's First Night, aka The First Night Honors' misbehavin' younger sibling, will feature fun, frivolities, special performances, food and drinks, the presentation of The BWW Nashville Awards and, of course, the awarding of First Night's Best of 2014 honors. Sly, irreverent and slightly decadent, Midwinter's First Night will be held at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre, Nashville's iconic theatrical venue since 1964.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 05, 2015
It's back and it's this Sunday, January 11: Midwinter's First Night, aka The First Night Honors' misbehavin' younger sibling, will feature fun, frivolities, special performances, food and drinks, the presentation of The BWW Nashville Awards and, of course, the awarding of First Night's Best of 2014 honors. Sly, irreverent and slightly decadent, Midwinter's First Night will be held at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre, Nashville's iconic theatrical venue since 1964.
NASHVILLE THEATER 101.5: Amber Boyer, Justin Boyd & Maryanna Clarke
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 05, 2015
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - January 05, 2015
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 Act Too Players to Present 101 DALMATIONS, 1/17-18
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2015
The Act Too Players (ATP), Williamson County's premier training program for all youths interested in the performing arts will take the stage in January with the mounting of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. The productions will run from January 17th and 18th at the historic Franklin Theatre located in Downtown Franklin, Tennessee.
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2015
The Act Too Players (ATP), Williamson County's premier training program for all youths interested in the performing arts will take the stage in January with the mounting of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. The productions will run from January 17th and 18th at the historic Franklin Theatre located in Downtown Franklin, Tennessee.
The Center for the Arts to Present THE WIZARD OF OZ
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2015
The Center for the Arts will present The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Directed by Matthew Hayes Hunter, Music Direction by Emily Dennis, Choreography by Hayley Orozco. This musical adventure is a genuine family classic: an orphaned young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and uncle's dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel 'over the rainbow' to a different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little dog, Toto, to the land of Oz.
by BWW News Desk - January 02, 2015
The Center for the Arts will present The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Directed by Matthew Hayes Hunter, Music Direction by Emily Dennis, Choreography by Hayley Orozco. This musical adventure is a genuine family classic: an orphaned young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and uncle's dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel 'over the rainbow' to a different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little dog, Toto, to the land of Oz.
Last Chance to Vote for the BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - December 26, 2014
It's your last week to vote for the 2014 BroadwayWorld Nashville Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 26th. Voting closes at the end of the year, in under one week!
by BWW Special Coverage - December 26, 2014
It's your last week to vote for the 2014 BroadwayWorld Nashville Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 26th. Voting closes at the end of the year, in under one week!
Time is Ticking to Vote for the BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - December 19, 2014
Time is ticking on your last chance to vote for the 2014 BroadwayWorld Nashville Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 19th. Voting closes at the end of the year!
by BWW Special Coverage - December 19, 2014
Time is ticking on your last chance to vote for the 2014 BroadwayWorld Nashville Regional Awards! Check out the latest live stats as of December 19th. Voting closes at the end of the year!
THE FRIDAY FIVE: JJ Rodgers from Actors Point's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 19, 2014
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 19, 2014
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
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 18, 2014
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.
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 18, 2014
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.
BWW Reviews: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL
by Cara Richardson - December 18, 2014
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical opened at Tennessee Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night. Rudolph pranced into Nashville bringing Christmas spirit along with several recognizable friends like Hermy, Yukon Cornelius, Clarice, the Abominable Snowman, and, of course, Santa Claus. Based on the 1964 stop-motion animation Christmas special that still plays every year, Rudolph the Musical brings the joy of the television special to the stage, while still retaining all of its charm.
by Cara Richardson - December 18, 2014
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical opened at Tennessee Performing Arts Center on Tuesday night. Rudolph pranced into Nashville bringing Christmas spirit along with several recognizable friends like Hermy, Yukon Cornelius, Clarice, the Abominable Snowman, and, of course, Santa Claus. Based on the 1964 stop-motion animation Christmas special that still plays every year, Rudolph the Musical brings the joy of the television special to the stage, while still retaining all of its charm.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Chambers Stevens Checks In
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 18, 2014
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. And in 2012, he was recognized as a First Night Honoree for the role he has played in the development of theater in Tennessee.
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 18, 2014
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. And in 2012, he was recognized as a First Night Honoree for the role he has played in the development of theater in Tennessee.
Lexy Baeza Talks 'RUDOLPH'
by Cara Richardson - December 16, 2014
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.
by Cara Richardson - December 16, 2014
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.
Nashville Repertory Theatre's REPaloud Series to Continue with DINNER WITH FRIENDS; Donald Margulies Set for Talkback
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2014
Nashville Repertory Theatre's REPaloud (Reading Excellent Plays Aloud) series continues with a special staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Dinner with Friends on January 13 and 14, 2015, including a talkback with playwright and 2014-15 Ingram New Works Fellow Donald Margulies on January 14.
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2014
Nashville Repertory Theatre's REPaloud (Reading Excellent Plays Aloud) series continues with a special staged reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Dinner with Friends on January 13 and 14, 2015, including a talkback with playwright and 2014-15 Ingram New Works Fellow Donald Margulies on January 14.
Act Too Players to Present Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Next Month
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 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 January with the mounting of Disney's High School Musical. The productions will run from January 23rd through January 25th at the historic Franklin Theatre located in Downtown Franklin, Tennessee.
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 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 January with the mounting of Disney's High School Musical. The productions will run from January 23rd through January 25th at the historic Franklin Theatre located in Downtown Franklin, Tennessee.
COLLEGIATE THEATRICS: NYU's Delaney Amatrudo
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 16, 2014
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 which makes her stand out in any crowd, that is especially noticeable when she is onstage, and which burns brightly regardless of the situation.
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 16, 2014
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 which makes her stand out in any crowd, that is especially noticeable when she is onstage, and which burns brightly regardless of the situation.
RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER Plays TPAC, Now thru 12/21
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2014
In 1964, the beloved stop-motion animated television classic, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' made its network television debut delighting audiences across the country. Fifty years later, the longest-running and highest-rated television special comes to life, live on stage with RUDOLPH the RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's James Polk Theater for a limited, one-week engagement, tonight, December 16-21.
by BWW News Desk - December 16, 2014
In 1964, the beloved stop-motion animated television classic, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' made its network television debut delighting audiences across the country. Fifty years later, the longest-running and highest-rated television special comes to life, live on stage with RUDOLPH the RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's James Polk Theater for a limited, one-week engagement, tonight, December 16-21.
NASHVILLE THEATER 101: Two Johns and a German
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 15, 2014
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 sane. Today, in our latest installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce three more members of our wildly divergent, almost prototypically dysfunctional theater family: John Silvestro, Carolyn German and John Mauldin-or as we like to call them, "Two Johns and a German."
by Jeffrey Ellis - December 15, 2014
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 sane. Today, in our latest installment of Nashville Theater 101, we introduce three more members of our wildly divergent, almost prototypically dysfunctional theater family: John Silvestro, Carolyn German and John Mauldin-or as we like to call them, "Two Johns and a German."
Videos
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The Sound of Music
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium (2/13 - 2/13) | |
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Sherlock
TPAC (5/1 - 5/3) | |
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The Book of Mormon (Non-Equity)
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (6/2 - 6/7) | |
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King Hedley II
Chattanooga Theatre Centre (1/23 - 2/8) | |
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Ogemdi Ude: MAJOR
OZ Arts (2/12 - 2/14) | |
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BIRDIE
OZ Arts (1/30 - 1/31) | |
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Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age & Mannequin Pussy at Nissan Stadium
Nissan Stadium (8/15 - 8/15) | |
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