NASHVILLE THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 208

Youth Actors' Guild hosts Annual Scholarship Night on Tuesday, April 12 at 7pm at the Pull-Tight Theatre

On April 12, members of the Youth Actors' Guild will take to the Pull-Tight stage in the wonderfully entertaining Scholarship Night Live.

Calling all would-be Romeos and Juliets to Centennial Park April 22 for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's celebration of William Shakespeare's 447th birthday.

Beginning Friday, April 22, at 8pm, the Roxy Regional Theatre marks the Sesquicentennial with THE CIVIL WAR, a musical tribute covering the enormous emotional landscape of the most difficult test our nation has ever endured.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 4/10 for Nashville

Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire, described as 'one of the most positive shows of the black-American experience' opens tonight at Gallatin's Palace Theatre, playing April 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.

Coming between Lips Together, Teeth Apart and Love! Valour! Compassion! in the canon of Terrence McNally's works, A Perfect Ganesh - despite its Pulitzer Prize nomination - remains relatively unknown, seldom produced and somewhat unappreciated by theater audiences.

John Bishop's The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is a deliciously campy send-up of movies, mysteries and musicals - and now, thanks to a top-flight production from Brentwood's Towne Centre Theatre, local audiences can once again revel in the play's cleverly constructed, though thoroughly implausible

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced plans for REPaloud, the popular play reading series which highlights contemporary plays.

The epic adventure of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is relived in the regional premiere of BEA(U)TIFUL IN THE EXTREME*, opening at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, April 1, at 8pm.

Trish Crist and Jaime Janiszewski should be artist's models: Crist, tall and titian-tressed, has a visage of timeless, classic beauty - she easily could have been the inspiration for all those towering statues of womanhood signifying liberty, freedom and all manner of other lofty aspirations.

Charlayne Woodard's Pretty Fire, described as 'one of the most positive shows of the black-American experience' opens tonight at Gallatin's Palace Theatre, playing April 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.

An open call will be held for the Boiler Room Theatre's production of A Streetcar Named Desire on Sunday, May 15.

Theatre Memphis will present William Shakespeare's Richard III, April 8-23, 2011, in the Next Stage.

Beginning Friday, April 8, the search is on for CMT's Next Superstar as five men and five women vie for the title in CMT's latest competition series, premiering this Friday at 9 p.

Nashville's UNTITLED Artist Group welcomes you to its 2011 spring show 'SUBJECT TO CHANGE," Friday, April 8 from 6 to 10 p.

Paul Cook directs four of Nashville's favorites actors in the upcoming Rhubarb Theater Company production of Terrence McNally's A Perfect Ganesh, April 8-23, at The Darkhorse Theater.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced plans for REPaloud, the popular play reading series which highlights contemporary plays.

The brand new 25th anniversary production of Boublil & Schönberg's legendary musical, LES MISÉRABLES, is coming to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from May 17 through 22, as part of HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC.

Double Funny! - Carl Hurley & Jeanne Robertson will be at TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall

Led by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and President and CEO Alan D.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is now accepting applications for its three immersive Summer Play Camps, to be held on the grounds of Germantown High School this June and July.

David Compton returns to a role he first played almost a quarter-century ago and Rona Carter plays a man who is transformed into an ass in Nashville Children's Theatre's upcoming production of Robin Goodfellow, playwright Aurand Harris' unique take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Circle Players' upcoming production of Jason Robert Brown's new musical 13 presents quite the challenge for everyone involved in bringing the show to the stage of the Larry Keeton Theatre for its upcoming Nashville run.

The theatrical legacy of playwright Lanford Wilson will commemorated at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main with the company's production of Burn This, running April 14-May 1, with shows Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.