Hairspray at Tennessee Performing Arts Center

KIMBERLY AKIMBO, SHUCKED And More Announced for Tennessee Performing Arts Center's 2024-2025 Broadway Season

February 20, 2024

Tennessee Center for the Performing Arts has announced the lineup for its 2024-2025 Broadway season, including engagements of Tony Award-winners Moulin Rouge the Musical!, Shucked, MJ The Musical, and Kimberly Akimbo! The season also includes engagements of the touring companies of Peter Pan, Clue, & Juliet, and Mamma Mia!.

Heidi Blickenstaff, Lauren 'LOLO' Pritchard & More to Star in MAY WE ALL: A NEW COUNTRY MUSICAL World Premiere

April 13, 2022

Casting has been announced for the world premiere of the highly-anticipated May We All: A New Country Musical.

Global Roundup 10/18 - ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Tour, Starry THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA & More!

October 18, 2019

BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature Once On This Island, The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd and more!

Bruce Vilanch And Kira Kosarin To Star In ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH At Nashville's TPAC

August 19, 2019

After the success of last year's holiday spectacular Peter Pan and Tinkerbell a?" A Pirate's Christmas, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Lythgoe Family Give Kids Panto will reunite this holiday season to present Aladdin and His Winter Wish Dec.12-22 in TPAC's Polk Theater.

28 High Schools Competing for the 2019 Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards

March 27, 2019

Multi-talented young theater artists and technicians from 28 Tennessee high schools will put their skills on display this year in hopes of claiming their place in the spotlight as the sixth annual Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards – aka The Spotlight Awards – are presented in Nashville on May 11.

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN Opens the 2019 Season at Woodbury's Arts Center of Cannon County

January 26, 2019

One of the silver screen's most popular musicals, Singin' in the Rain comes to the stage of Woodbury's Arts Center of Cannon County with all the trappings of a box office smash: memorable score, talented actors and enough technical razzle-dazzle to delight even the most discerning of theater-goers. Opening February 8 (and continuing through February 23) at ACCC, the stage musical stars Austin Jeffrey Smith, Lindsey Mapes Duggin and Daxton Patrick in the film roles immortalized by Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor in the award-winning 1952 film version.

BWW Review: PETER PAN AND TINKER BELL: A PIRATE'S CHRISTMAS Brings Panto Tradition to Music City

December 17, 2018

Audiences have until next Sunday - December 23, to be precise - to experience what is likely to become a Music City holiday tradition: Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate's Christmas at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's James K. Polk Theatre. A somewhat Americanized version of a peculiarly British seasonal entertainment, aka "panto," Peter Pan and Tinker Bell is a winning blend of theater, Christmas pageant, vaudeville and British music hall all rolled into one bright, shiny, kind of weird, but altogether fun and rather unique holiday-themed package that's a welcome addition to yuletide revelry.