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I can now feel the tiny pin pricks of the needles piercing the flesh of the Jef Ellis voodoo dolls held about the neck by various members of the cast and crew as they exact their revenge while they continue reading this review.

Memphis native and the Olivier Award-winning playwright of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall is featured in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization - as part of its Americans for Marriage Equality camp

Tennessee Rep Offers Holiday Favorite The Santaland Diaries, with Matt Chiorini returning to Nashville to Don the Ears of the Elf.

A new high school-based musical developed Theatrical Rights Worldwide, with music by Bret Simmons and book by David Howard, is now available to be performed.

Lionel Bart's classic musical OLIVER! based on Dickens' novel, runs at The Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin, TN, November 18-26.

More to the point, Ragtime in Concert at Street Theatre Company is not to be missed.

The national tour of the new musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Nashville premiere January 3 through 8 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center as part of the HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC serie

Directed by David Alford (who first wore Crumpet the elf's turned-up slippers for Tennessee Rep) and starring audience favorite Matt Chiorini, who returns to Nashville to take on the festive mantle of the acerbic, take no prisoners, would-be actor and serious One Life to Live fan (wonder how he's do

Long Way Down, Nashville playwright Nate Eppler's critically acclaimed new work which premiered locally earlier this year, has been named a semi-finalist for the 2012 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.

Memphis, the musical, is a lot like Memphis, the city: You either love it or you hate it.

Following the sold-out success of Street Theatre Company's local premiere of Chess in Concert this past February, November brings the award-winning Broadway musical, Ragtime, for an In Concert performance.

Sarah and Charlie, a married couple, run a small theater that's presenting A Christmas Carol -- until Charlie shows up backstage to say the cast and crew are snowed out.

Nashville Symphony Chorus Director Dr.

Oliver! - the Lionel Bart musical about London street urchin Oliver Twist and the scores of ruffians and ragamuffins who make up something of a family for the orphaned boy - opens at Franklin's Boiler Room Theatre on Friday night, running through December 23, offering regional audiences the opportun

The Sanders Family of Smoke on the Mountain trilogy fame returns to Crossville's Cumberland County Playhouse November 18 for their 12th season of A Sanders Family Christmas, taking audiences back to Mt Pleasant Baptist Church to celebrate Christmas 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor, for their fin

Dance Theatre of Tennessee brings the sparkling magic of the season to life with its version of The Nutcracker, which will be presented to audiences in four Middle Tennessee in the coming weeks.

Nashville theater mavens and the fans of internet-borne musicals (it's a sub-genre of some group, look it up!) are fairly a-dither in anticipation of this week's opening night for ACT 1's production of A Fann-Made, Permission-Granted, Unofficial Production of Dr.

Although she is loath to admit it, Cathy Street (the eponymous artistic force behind the acclaimed Street Theatre Company) says only time will tell if the 'In Concert' series at STC truly will become a theatrical phenomenon - even if evidence already suggests that it is.

Byran Fenkart, who plays the starring role of DJ Huey Calhoun in the national tour, made his Broadway debut in Memphis as the Huey stand-by to Tony nominee Chad Kimball, says the experience of mounting Memphis in Memphis is one he'll never forget - and one which affected the entire company in so man

After the Thanksgiving rush is over, the Roxy Regional Theatre invites patrons to join John McDonald, as Ebenezer Scrooge, as he meets the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future while rediscovering the true meaning of the holiday in the Charles Dickens classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

Voting is now open for the 2011 Nashville Awards! Now it's time for you to get out and vote for your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Nashville Award.

With audience participation required to bring it fully to life onstage, Jeff Wirth's The Antics of Romantics is overflowing with imagination and creativity, making it one of the most exhilarating theater offerings we've seen this season.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 11/13 for Nashville

Truth be told, seeing Henry Haggard and Jeff Boyet playing first graders may be enough to ensure that you get yourself to Nashville Children's Theatre for the company's wonderfully entertaining production of Junie B.

Myth, an original musical by Blackbird Theater co-founders Wes Driver and Greg Greene and composer Michael Slayton, will be presented in front of an audience for the first time on Saturday, November 12, at Lipscomb University's Shamblin Theater.