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Jennifer Drake is one of the leading lights of the relatively young - and Nashville-based - Dance Theatre of Tennessee, taking on major roles for the company throughout its short history.

TPAC is located in the James K.

Everyone warned me: from the very first person who heard I would be seeing Tuesdays With Morrie at Cumberland County Playhouse to the stage manager I saw in the lobby just before heading into the Adventure Theatre where Daniel Black and John Fionte hold sway as sportswriter Mitch Albom and his mento

Camp Rock, The Musical could easily be dismissed as so much homogenized, Disneyfied, teenaged pablum - but, in reality, it's much more than that.

Beth Henley won the Pulitzer Prize for this irreverant, warm-hearted portrayal of three very different sisters struggling to make sense of their lives through a hilarious mix of conflicts, crises and revelations.

Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 3/06 for Nashville

Nashville favorite Tyson Laemmel stars as Robbie, 'a cheesy, but lovable New Jersey rocker' in Circle Players' upcoming production of The Wedding Singer, the upbeat romantic musical comedy that debuted on Broadway in 2006 and is based on the 1998 Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore movie.

Belles on Their Toes, the sequel to the classic stage comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, opens the 2011 season at Lakewood Theatre Company in Old Hickory, running February 18-March 5.

The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in the Roxy Regional Theatre's production of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN': The Fats Waller Musical Show, beginning February 11.

Tony Award-winning vocalist Idina Menzel will perform one night only with the Nashville Symphony on Tuesday, June 7, at 8 p.

Audiences will find out what happens when a defrocked priest, a teenage tart and an ancient poet walk into a down-at-heels Mexican hotel in Tennessee Williams' classic play, The Night of the Iguana.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from March 22 through 27.

Before she returns to Broadway in a much-anticipated revival next year, Annie - America's best-known comic strip orphan turned musical comedy heroine - makes a stop in Franklin as the beloved musical that's 'all about her' hits the stage at Bethlehem United Methodist Church, March 4-13.

Born in Texas, but a Nashvillian through-and-through, Jake Speck might look like your stereotypical matinee idol - tall and good-looking - but there's a certain affable goofiness about him that completely blows the stereotype out of the water.

Humanities Outreach in Tennessee-TPAC Education named Kenneth King of Hume-Fogg Academic High School as the 2010-2011 Teacher of the Year.

The Renaissance Center in Dickson presents a unique production of Annie, Jr.

Neil Sedaka's music is featured in Breaking Up is Hard to Do, now onstage through March 19 at the Gaslight Dinner Theatre at The Renaissance Center in Dickson, kicking off the theater's 2011 season with the Tennessee premiere of the musical revue.

To conclude its 25th anniversary season, Nashville Ballet will present the awe-inspiring audience favorites Afternoon of a Faun and Carmina Burana April 29 through May 1 in TPAC's Jackson Hall, in conjunction with The Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Nashville Children's Choir and guest

'A ghost and a prince meet and everyone ends in mincemeat" at the Roxy Regional Theatre with the opening of HAMLET on Friday, March 11, at 8pm.

A Comedy Barn Theater employee and his canine co-worker are both recovering one step at a time from recent leg amputations with love, laughter and a generous lift from the theater's co-owners and fellow employees.

Kandace Christian plays Margaret Mitchell - who created one of the biggest and best novels of the 20th Century with Gone With the Wind - in a one-actor play called Mrs.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts has partnered with ten local and regional community organizations to present Connecting Cultures: Children's Stories from Across the World, an exhibition inspired by children's stories that is designed to reflect the unique cultural values of each participating c

Johnny Peppers and Jenny Norris-Light lead the cast of Bethlehem Players' Annie, opening Friday, March 4, at Franklin's Bethlehem United Methodist Church, running through March 13.

Clint Jefferies' The Three Musketeers, a musical retelling of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale of the young D'Artagnan, who leaves home to seek for adventure and glory in Paris with the King's Musketeers, will be presented by Donelson's Larry Keeton Theatre, March 11-27.

Now onstage through March 13 at the Z.