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Talula Gallery Presents Fragments and Layers by Carrie Cox
by BWW News Desk - February 05, 2011
Talula Gallery presents "Fragments and Layers", monotypes and mixed media collage by Carrie Cox. The exhibition will be on view from February 1st through the 28th. A reception for the artist is scheduled for Saturday, February 5 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Tennessee Rep Presents YANKEE TAVERN 2/5-19
by BWW News Desk - February 05, 2011
Tennessee Repertory Theatre will present its production of the mind-bending dramatic thriller Yankee Tavern by Steven Dietz.
Lydia Bushfield's 'I'LL BE SEEING YOU' opens 2011 season at Chaffin's Barn
by BWW News Desk - February 05, 2011
Lydia Bushfield's 1940s musical revue, I'll Be Seeing You, opens the 2011 season at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre this week, running January 6 through February 5. Directed by David Compton, the cast features Melodie Madden Adams, Nancy Allen and Jennifer Richmond as three World War II-era factory workers who discover their shared love of music during workday breaks from contributing to the war effort.
STAGE TUBE: Boyet explains 'carnal embrace' to McCoy in trailer for Blackbird Theater's ARCADIA
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 04, 2011
Playwright/director Ted Swindley helms a much-anticipated production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, presented by Blackbird Theater at Nashville's David Lipscomb University's Shamblin Theatre February 25-March 12. Swindley's cast includes Denice Hicks, Amanda Card-McCoy, David Compton, Jeff Boyet, Wes Driver, Britt Byrd, Scott Rice and Brad Forrister. Curtain is at 7 p.m. for all performances.
BWW Reviews: Street Theatre Company's I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 04, 2011
Just in time for Valentine's Day, director Larry Tobias and music director Rollie Mains have ushered the clever little musical (with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts) to the stage, featuring the delightful - and supremely on-target - talents of Bakari King, Tyson Laemmel, Megan Murphy Chambers and Cathy Sanborn Street. The talented quartet take audiences on a roller-coaster ride of sorts as they give us a look at the contemporary dating scene, which is apparently 'all heterosexual, all the time' - and which could be the revue's one element that dates the material to the 1990s.
STAGE TUBE: Nashville's Theatre Bug has big plans for Spring Break 2011 GLEEK WEEK
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 04, 2011
Nashville theater favorite Cori Laemmel, via The Theater Bug, has big plans for area youngsters during Spring Break 2011: Gleek Week, a Glee-inspired performing arts camp culminating in special performances. The camp, which will be held at Donelson's Larry Keeton Theatre, is set for March 14-18, with the show on Saturday, March 19.
DOUBT Talk-Back Held This Friday at Pull-Tight
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2011
Just a reminder that the final performances of Doubt are this weekend .
Pull-Tight Players' DOUBT To Have Talk-Back, 2/4
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2011
The Pull-Tight Players Theatre of Franklin, Tennessee, will host a talk-back following the Friday, Feb. 4 performance of John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT. Patrons are invited and encouraged to stay to explore DOUBT further with director Heather Bottoms and the cast. This will substitute for the Players' traditional Prelude event Sunday, Jan. 16, which has been cancelled due to unpredictable weather.
Tennessee Performing Arts Center Announces Their February Events
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2011
The mission of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center is 'to create a lifetime of meaningful and relevant experiences through the performing arts.'
Joan Rivers Takes The Stage At Andrew Jackson Hall 2/4/2011
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2011
Comedic icon JOAN RIVERS will grace the stage of Andrew Jackson Hall for one performance only, February 4, 2011.
Jazz Vocalist Kurt Elling to Perform with Nashville Symphony
by BWW News Desk - February 04, 2011
Fresh from his 2010 GRAMMY® win for Best Jazz Vocal Album, popular American jazz vocalist Kurt Elling is joining the Nashville Symphony as the final addition to its 2010/11 Adams and Reese Jazz Series. The performance is scheduled for 8 p.m. on February 4, 2011, at Schermerhorn Symphony Center's Laura Turner Concert Hall.
BWW Interviews: Matt Logan, A Life in the Theater
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 03, 2011
Matt Logan is a force of nature. Whether he's helming a burgeoning professional theater company as its artistic director, directing and designing a new production, creating yet another work of theatrical visual art for which he's become justifiably, well, famous - you name it, he does it and he does it well. And he does it in Nashville, which is not exactly the first place you'd think of finding someone of his talent and stature. But Nashville is his home and that's where his heart is, obviously.
BWW Reviews: JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE at Nashville Children's Theatre
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 03, 2011
Eric D. Pasto-Crosby gives such a startlingly confident portrayal of the heroic Jason in Nashville Children's Theatre's production of John Olive's adaptation of Jason and the Golden Fleece that you cannot help but be caught up in all the stage magic created by the coterie of extraordinary artisans who make NCT such a consistent - and constant - source of inspiration.
'I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE' on tap at Street Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - February 03, 2011
Love is in bloom at Street Theatre Company in February with a special two week engagement of the hit musical, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!, running February 3-13 at the theater, 1933 Elm Hill Pike.
The Roxy is Jumpin' with Music of Fats Waller in AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
by Kelsey Denette - February 02, 2011
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.
Laemmel, Sonn, Sasser lead cast of Circle Players' THE WEDDING SINGER
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 01, 2011
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. Starring opposite Laemmel is Laura Thomas Sonn as 'a hopelessly romantic waitress.'
DOUBT Talk-Back Held This Friday at Pull-Tight
by Gabrielle Sierra - February 01, 2011
Just a reminder that the final performances of Doubt are this weekend .
Sondra Morton's Act Too Players Gears Up for Master Class Series
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 01, 2011
For Sondra Morton, the owner and artistic director Act Too Players, every day has its own special set of challenges and sources of inspiration - and, quite frankly, she'd have it no other way. In fact, she thrives on the pace and excitement that is all in a day's work as she inspires and trains budding thespians in Middle Tennessee through the company's efforts.
Nashville premieres on tap in Dance Theatre of Tennessee's ASPECTS OF LOVE
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 01, 2011
Dance Theatre of Tennessee presents a mid-winter series of Nashville premieres - and invites audiences to the 'hottest post-Valentine ticket in town,' according to company artistic director Christopher Mohnani - in Aspects of Love, 'a celebration of dance, music and love. Led by Mohnani, DTT presents an evening of several premieres promising 'an evening of wonderful dancing and choreography together with memorable and familiar music that will have you wanting for more.'
'TIL BETH DO US PART just in time for Valentine's Day at Chaffin's Barn
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 01, 2011
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre presents 'Til Beth Do Us Part, a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten - the successful trio of playwrights behind Dearly Beloved and Christmas Belles - for a February 10-March 19 run at the venerable Nashville dinner theater. Directed by Martha Wilkinson, 'Til Beth Do Us Part features Lydia Bushfield, Warren Gore, Kim Nygren, Debbie Kraski, Tammie Whited and Charlie Winton.
On your March to-do list: See ANNIE, adopt a pooch
by Jeffrey Ellis - February 01, 2011
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.
Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows for Nashville - 1/30
by BWW - January 30, 2011
Upcoming Theatre Communication Group Member Shows - 1/30 for Nashville
Matt Lamb Exhibits At Nashville Ballet Frist Gallery 1/30
by BWW News Desk - January 30, 2011
Nashville Ballet will celebrate the art of world-renowned painter Matt Lamb at a reception Sunday, Jan. 30 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Martin Center for Nashville Ballet Frist Gallery, where Lamb's paintings are currently displayed for the public to enjoy.
SHAKESPEARE'S CASE Closes 1/30 at Nashville Shakespeare Festival
by BWW News Desk - January 30, 2011
William Shakespeare must defend his works' relevancy for the 21st Century in Shakespeare's Case, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's 2011 winter production. This original play closes Jan. 30 at Belmont University's Troutt Theater.
SHREK Closes at the Tenessee Performing Arts Center, 1/30
by BWW News Desk - January 30, 2011
SHREK THE MUSICAL with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Jason Moore and Rob Ashford, will close at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on January 30.

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