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Nashville Ballet looking for local talent to develop; A Scholarship Audition for Summer Intensive training at School of Nashville Ballet will be held on Saturday, June 5th.

Wright's play focuses on the time that Vincent Van Gogh spent in London and Brixton in the 1870s - a period before he drew his first sketch and one that changed him completely.

Heather Headley, Alli Mauzey, Jodi Benson and Anthony Federov will headline a special concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, set for Friday, May 14, at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre's 2009 - 2010 Professional Interns will present a showcase of Ben Jonson's Volpone May 13 - 14 at 7:30 pm.

In the wake of the devastating floods in Nashville, the Nashville Symphony's presentation of Gustavo Dudamel with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, scheduled for Saturday, May 15, has moved to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC).

The altogether charming and amazingly talented Mauzey claims an impressive theatrical resume, which includes her starmaking turn in Cry-Baby, the Broadway musical based on the John Waters film, that resulted in a 2008 Theatre World Award, as well as a Drama League Award nomination.

Starring Nashville actress Nan Gurley as Sister Aloysius, with Steven Pounders as Father Flynn, Doubt will be directed by Mike Fernandez, Lipscomb's chair of theater.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre's 2009 - 2010 Professional Interns will present a showcase of Ben Jonson's Volpone May 13 - 14 at 7:30 pm.

Street Theatre Company, which was forced to cancel its final two performances of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE due to the flooding in Middle Tennessee, announces that it is able to bring back the show for one additional weekend.

Broadway Cares, in partnership with the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the cast and crew of the A CHORUS LINE national tour, will make a donation of $47,892 to The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee to help to those affected by the May 1, 2010 floods.

When I ran into Carolyn one afternoon a couple of weeks ago, she invited me to attend Songs in a Silken Sky, a cabaret performance by participants in Metro Parks Theater and Music Department's Young Performers Program.

Perhaps best known to the general public for her performance as Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid (the animated blockbuster that is credited with reaffirming the Disney brand as the ultimate in film animation), Benson has delighted legions of fans over the years with her ageless vocal abilities,

Since the sold out reading of Topdog/Underdog in the 2009 Step Into The Future Season, Nashville has awaited the full out production of the play.

Nashville Ballet celebrates its 25th Anniversary and announces the 2010/2011 season.

During that time, the talented Ms.

For Matt Logan, staging a special concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is the culmination of a long-held dream of his to bring just such a production to his hometown of Nashville, perhaps best known as Music City USA.

There are few contemporary artists whose name is as synonymous with the medium in which he works as Dale Chihuly, who is widely regarded as the most innovative glass artist working today.

Hot on the heels of the Nashville premiere of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Amun Ra Theatre shows no sign of slowing down its pace this season as it prepares to tackle Samuel Beckett's absurdist classic Waiting For Godot, directed by guest artist Robert Kiefer and starring a virtual 'who's who' of

Former NFL great Eddie George and Amun Ra Theatre founder and artistic director jeff obafemi carr -star in a special one-night-only production of Suzan Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's James K.

Wright's play focuses on the time that Vincent Van Gogh spent in London and Brixton in the 1870s - a period before he drew his first sketch and one that changed him completely.

The Nashville premiere of Michael Murphy's The Conscientious Objector is next up for GroundWorks Theatre, running April 30-May 8 at the Darkhorse Theater.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre has announced its schedule for the Martha R.

Although the aftermath of devastating floods in the Nashville area resulted in a one-night postponement for the opening of 3Ps Production's Mixed Nuts, directed by Johnny Peppers, the cast will host a fundraiser at Friday night's performance -- Friday, May 7, the show's new opening night -- to benef

Tennessee Women's Theater Project returns to the Nashville's Z.

With Schermerhorn Symphony Center damaged by the extensive downtown flooding, the Nashville Symphony has moved swiftly to find alternative venues for multiple May concerts.