Nashville Theatre Newsroom

Five new board members have been elected to the Frist Art Museum Board of Trustees. The new members are Phillip G. Billington, Ramon L. Cisneros, Donald R. Hardin Jr., Dee Patel, and Tara Scarlett.

Should you feel the sudden urge to go home and bake some gingerbread upon leaving a performance of Nashville Children’s Theatre’s world premiere production of The Gingerbread Kid, rest assured it’s not a sign that you’ve developed cannibalistic tendencies. Rather, it’s part of a clever plot by director/choreographer/librettist Abe Reybold and executive artistic director Ernie Nolan (and their gang of creative artists) to ensure you’re immersed in the sweet-smelling world of confectionery treats while enjoying the brand-new musical that presents all manner of childhood tales in “bakery-fresh” packaging.

Full casting has been revealed for the Nashville premiere of ONLY HOPE: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO A WALK TO REMEMBER. Learn more about who is joining the cast here!

It is a chilling reminder of the hardships of life, the capricious nature of humankind and the cruelty to which people are still subjected today. And that, quite frankly, is why you should make it a point to see Nashville Repertory Theatre’s stunning production of Indecent, which is at once warmly amusing, heartbreakingly authentic and horrifically prescient more than a century after many of the events depicted took place.

Celebrated singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon discusses her trailblazing career and country music roots at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville.

Perhaps without knowing it, McPherson, the show’s creative collective and everyone involved with bringing Girl From The North Country to the stage have created the perfect musical for Nashville’s discerning theater audiences, people who know a thing or two about appreciating music, art and live performance. Only when you begin to leave the theater, perhaps awestruck by what you have just experienced, will you realize the gravity of what you have just seen.

Calling Girl From The North Country a 'jukebox musical' is not only a misnomer, but it completely misses the point of Irish playwright/director Conor McPherson’s acclaimed Broadway musical that features a score by Bob Dylan, according to actress Jennifer Blood, who plays Elizabeth Laine in the national touring company that begins its weeklong stand at Nashville’s Tennessee Performing Arts Center tonight.

Tennessee Playwrights Studio announces retirement of co-founder/co-director Kenley Smith. Read his statement along with thoughts from TPS theatre artists. Kenley Smith, the recent 2024 Theaterati of the Year Recipient, is ready to retire but will continue writing plays and supporting TPS. Molly Breen will continue as director of TPS. Thank Kenley for his contributions to the theatre community.

Join Mayor Freddie O'Connell, MNPS Director of Schools Dr. Adrienne Battle, T Bone Burnett, and more for dynamic discussions at OZ Arts Nashville's annual signature benefit, 'Conversations at OZ' on February 21, 2024.

Rediscover Oneself with Thoughts of a Colored Man, Keenan Scott II's daringly universal new play celebrating the hopes, ambitions, joys and triumphs of Black men in a world that often refuses to hear them, opening at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Thursday, February 8, at 7:00pm.

JayVe Montgomery, a Nashville-based composer, and chatterbird, a Nashville-based chamber ensemble, have announced further details surrounding a year-long field recording project focused on capturing the sounds and history of the “drowned towns” of historic Black communities found throughout the Southeastern United States.

Nashville Opera launches the second half of its 23.24 Season - JOURNEY - with Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas.

Discover the intersecting careers and legacies of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French in a new exhibition at the Frist Art Museum.

Meet the cast of Mrs. Krishnan's Party before the production comes to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, with performances beginning March 6th, 2024.

OZ Arts Nashville's annual fundraiser, 'Conversations at OZ,' will feature over 30 intimate dinner conversations hosted by prominent Nashville figures.

Tennessee Playwrights Studio announces the 2024 TPS Fellows, selected through a competitive application process. Meet the five talented Fellows!

Watch a trailer for Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, coming to Tennessee Performing Arts Center April 26-28, 2024 here!

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Nashville! Winners announced include Cumberland County Playhouse, Nashville Opera and more.

Strauss Serpent - America's Got Talent: The Champions semifinalist and contortionist – is set to join the cast of the hit residency show “Shiners Nashville” at the Woolworth Theatre this weekend. 

The Human Artistry Campaign supports the ELVIS Act, which aims to protect individuals' voice, image, and likeness against irresponsible AI.

This year's highlights include performances from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Fred again.., Pretty Lights, Megan Thee Stallion, Cage The Elephant, Maggie Rogers, Melanie Martinez, Khruangbin, Cigarettes After Sex, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Diplo, Carly Rae Jepsen, Fisher, Jon Batiste, Dominic Fike, Parcels, Idles, Reneé Rapp, and more.

Cassandra, the reigning Miss Music City and Nashville-based pop singer/songwriter, has released her new 'Popera' single titled 'Queen of Every Night.' This unique genre blends opera and pop music to create a fresh musical experience that appeals to mainstream listeners.

What a way to open a brand-new year of live theater in Nashville: in Funny Girl, audiences may have found exactly what they were longing for as Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s touring presentation provides a portentous kick-off to 2024. In fact, we can’t recall a standing ovation more gratifyingly sincere and genuine in the 35+ years we’ve been reviewing shows at TPAC than the one with which the company was rewarded on opening night in Andrew Jackson Hall. It was appreciative and effusive – downright enthusiastic and straight from the heart – the thunderous and sustained reaction to two-and-a-half hours of gloriously exhilarating musical theatre straight out of the golden age.

Chances are that if you’re auditioning for musical theatre college programs, you’ve scheduled some of your auditions to take place at either New York, Chicago, or LA Unifieds. Unifieds are a great tool to audition for as many schools as possible, but they can also be daunting.

Eve Ensler's popular series of monologues about women and performed by women is back at the Roxy Regional Theatre for the 21st year, this time on the mainstage.  The Vagina Monologues runs January 12 through January 20.