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Celebrate the Holidays at The Gaslight With TOTALLY AWESOME Dickens Update
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 15, 2016
Dickson's Gaslight Dinner Theatre closes out its 16th Anniversary Season - and celebrates the holiday season - with Kim Beagle Graham's A Totally Awesome Christmas Carol, opening Friday.
The Arts Company Celebrates 20th Anniversary
by BWW News Desk - November 14, 2016
On December 3, 2016, The Arts Company, a small business visual arts gallery in Downtown Nashville on 5th Avenue of the Arts, and founded and owned by longtime arts leader Anne Brown, will beat the drums visually proclaiming a Happy 20th Birthday.
Have Yourself a Very Country Christmas at Gaylord Opryland Resort
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2016
With the flip of a switch, Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort tonight turned on its 2.3 million holiday lights and officially kicked off its 33(rd) annual A Country Christmas celebration.
Harry Connick, Jr.'s THE HAPPY ELF to Bring Christmas Cheer to Roxy Regional Theatre
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2016
After the turkey is put away on Thanksgiving evening, bring your out-of-town guests downtown for family entertainment sure to get everyone in the holiday spirit. A new musical comedy by the Grammy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated composer and lyricist, Harry Connick, Jr.'s THE HAPPY ELF opens at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Thursday, November 24, at 7:00pm.
Frist Center Offering Free Admission to Veterans on Veterans Day 2016
by BWW News Desk - November 11, 2016
In recognition of the service, commitment, and dedication of the American military community, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission for veterans, active-duty, retired, Reserve and National Guard service members, and their families on Veterans Day 2016.
Celebrate End of Prohibition Anniversary at Frist Center's Repeal Day Party
by BWW News Desk - November 10, 2016
On the evening of Monday, December 5, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will host a party celebrating the 83rd anniversary of the 1933 repeal of Prohibition. Proceeds from the event will support the ongoing maintenance and preservation of the historic post office building in which the Frist Center is housed.
Frist Center Offering Free Admission to Veterans on Veterans Day 2016
by BWW News Desk - November 07, 2016
In recognition of the service, commitment, and dedication of the American military community, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission for veterans, active-duty, retired, Reserve and National Guard service members, and their families on Veterans Day 2016.
Voting Now Open for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards
by BWW Special Coverage - November 07, 2016
Voting has opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Nashville Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016. Nominations were completely reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended October 31, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors. Voting will run through December 31. Winners will be announced in early January!
McGinnis Directs A LIE OF THE MIND For ACT 1
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 07, 2016
Dave McGinnis directs Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, opening this Friday night at Nashville's Darkhorse Theater, as ACT 1 continues its 2016-17 season.
DIXIE SWIM CLUB Opens in Murfreesboro Friday Night
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 07, 2016
The Dixie Swim Club - the Jones-Hope-Wooten comedy about five Southern women who meet on their college's swim team and hold a beachfront reunion every year thereafter - opens this week at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts, in a new production helmed by George W. Manus Jr.
Street Theatre Company Closes Out 2016 With TICK...TICK...BOOM!
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 07, 2016
Jonathan Larson's tick…tick…BOOM! closes out 2016 for Nashville's Street Theatre Company, running November 18-December 4 at Holy Trinity Church on Charlotte Pike, starring Christina Candilora, Geoff Davin and Christ Thomas.
Nashville Rep's Holiday Tradition is More Family Than Ever
by BWW News Desk - November 03, 2016
Nashville audiences can look forward to the warm-hearted and comedic holiday treat when Nashville Repertory Theatre produces A Christmas Story for an eighth consecutive season. This familiar story of young Ralphie's wintertime woes has become a tradition that many Middle Tennessee families eagerly attend year after year.
Photo Flash: Street Theatre Company Brings You The Explosive TICK...TICK...BOOM
by BWW News Desk - November 03, 2016
Street Theatre Company presents the final musical of its explosive 2016 season, tick...tick...BOOM!. Written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jonathan Larson, creator of the Tony Award smash hit RENT [recently in production at TPAC], and David Auburn, whose incredible play Proof earned him his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, tick...tick...BOOM! opened Off-Broadway in 2001 before moving to West End and the London stage.  
High School Drama: Hume-Fogg's JONATHAN HANKINS
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 03, 2016
Which brings us to today's edition of High School Drama, introducing you to one of the show's leading men: Jonathan Hankins. Here's your opportunity to get to know more about the talented HFA senior prior to opening night (You've made your reservations, right? Curtain's at 7 p.m. Don't be late!)…
Dramatists Guild of America to Host First Nashville Event 11/5
by Jeffrey Ellis - November 03, 2016
The Dramatists Guild of America will offer its first event in Nashville this Saturday, November 5, at Actors Bridge Studio at Darkhorse Chapel. Free to all Nashville artists interested in new works for the stage and taking place at the Darkhorse Chapel at 4610 Charlotte Ave, the event starts at noon and is open to Dramatists Guild members and non-members alike.
Dollywood Set to Celebrate Best and Brightest' Christmas Ever
by BWW News Desk - November 01, 2016
As the only theme park in the world to win Amusement Today's Golden Ticket award for Best Christmas Event, it is fair to say Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana (Nov. 5 - Jan. 1) can be considered a gold standard for Christmas festivals
BWW Review: Lipscomb's Cinematic BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 30, 2016
There is perhaps no theme more deeply resonant in Disney's Beauty and the Beast than its treatment of the redemptive power of love to change any trouble soul - and thanks to Mike Fernandez's cinematic take on the musical theater classic and the superb leading performances of Bekah Purifoy and Scott Patrick Wilson, the new revival now onstage at Lipscomb University's Collins Alumni Auditorium has much to engage and intrigue audiences.
BWW Review: Actors Bridge Ensemble's Whimsical, Magical FAILURE: A LOVE STORY
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 29, 2016
Who knew that a whimsical, magical play - Philip Dawkins' evocatively written Failure: A Love Story, now onstage at Nashville's Darkhorse Theater in a thoroughly engaging production from Actors Bridge Ensemble in its 20th Anniversary Season - would speak so eloquently to that sense of pervasive loss brought on by the inevitable passage of time? Certainly, not I.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
by BWW News Desk - October 29, 2016
SEX TIPS FOR STRAIGHT WOMEN FROM A GAY MAN Heads to Nashville November 4 & 5
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 28, 2016
t's that universal truth - or perhaps just an urban legend - that connects people who share their lives on a deeper level and which very well may have been the genesis for Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man, the off-Broadway hit that's now touring the United States, wending its way to Nashville for a three-show stand at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, November 4 and 5.
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Presents CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE, Today
by BWW News Desk - October 28, 2016
Acrobatic performers from Cirque de la Symphonie are coming to the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera stage for a one night only special event on Today, October 28 at Memorial Auditorium. Cirque's troupe of exceptional artists-aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers and strongmen-will perform on stage as the Orchestra performs classical favorites. CSO Music Director Kayoko Dan conducts.
HENRY V Marks Roxy Regional Theatre's 32nd Annual Shakespearean Production
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2016
This fall, the Roxy Regional Theatre delves into these questions with the company's 32nd annual foray into the works attributed to William Shakespeare.  An exploration into the nature of leadership and its relationship to morality, HENRY V opens Friday, November 4, at 8:00pm, for a limited run.
Critic's Choice: Get Your Halloween Fix at the Theater This Weekend
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 27, 2016
Have you decided on your Halloween costume yet? You better get to work since it's only four days until the big night is upon us and you won't want to caught with your pants down, so to speak. May we respectfully suggest a trip to your local, neighborhood theater? Not only will you be entertained, transformed and transported - we're willing to be on this happening - but you'll also probably get some great costume ideas in the process! And there is the added bonus that the theater company might be in the business of renting out costumes which would make your efforts even easier than you first thought…
Paula Flautt Directs CPA's MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 27, 2016
2015 First Night Honoree Paula Flautt directs the Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman classic comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner, as Christ Presbyterian Academy's high school theatre stages the show about a critic and raconteur who becomes a surprising houseguest for a small-town Ohio family.
High School Drama: Siegel High's MEGAN SCOTT
by Jeffrey Ellis - October 27, 2016
Today, Megan Scott, one of 2015 First Night Star Award winner Brenda Dent Gregory's talented student sat Murfreesboro's Siegel High School, continues our new season of High School Drama, the latest in a long list of younger actors to be introduced via Broadway World Nashville in the coming year…

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