BELMONT UNIVERSITY

by Jeffrey Ellis - April 01, 2024

With its silver anniversary year within sight, Belmont University Musical Theatre concludes its 24th season with what is perhaps its best show yet: Legally Blonde, The Musical. Featuring a remarkable cast of student performers, including most of the Class of 2024, which is arguably the most accompli...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 29, 2024

Join Mayor Freddie O'Connell, MNPS Director of Schools Dr. Adrienne Battle, T Bone Burnett, and more for dynamic discussions at OZ Arts Nashville's annual signature benefit, 'Conversations at OZ' on February 21, 2024....

by Jeffrey Ellis - November 21, 2023

News spread quickly among Nashville-area theaterati in January 2016: Denice Hicks would be taking the stage of Belmont University’s Troutt Theater to take on what could conceivably be her greatest theater challenge: Playing King Lear in the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s production of the Shakespe...

by Jeffrey Ellis - November 18, 2023

It only takes a moment whenconductor Jo Lynn Burks raises her baton and the first notes of the overture are heard to remember that Herman’s score includes a treasure trove of Broadway chestnuts, including “So Long, Dearie,” “Before the Parade Passes By,” “Elegance,” “It Only Takes A Moment,” “Put On...

by Jeffrey Ellis - November 16, 2023

Today, we continue to celebrate the return of Collegiate Theatrics featuring one of our favorites from the theatre department at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville: Alex Vanburen, a native of Johnson City, Tennessee, who graduated from APSU last May. We first met Alex when they auditioned f...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2023

Discover the power of songwriting at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Exhibition in Nashville. Explore artifacts, displays, and an original film featuring legendary songwriters. Admission is free at Belmont University's Lila D. Bunch Library....

by Jeffrey Ellis - October 29, 2023

That laughter you hear coming from within the Troutt Theatre on the Belmont University campus this weekend and next should probably come with a trigger warning. For no matter how rollicking, rambunctious and uproarious it truly is, it should be pointed out that what is transpiring on that stage over...

by Jeffrey Ellis - October 18, 2023

What if (of all the things possible in the mythical, magical world of musical theater) the four earnest boy singers of Forever Plaid hooked up with the vengeful Heathers, while at the same time Hedwig (of the Angry Inch fame) was getting busy with Carrie White (of the bucket of pig’s blood fame) and...

by Jeffrey Ellis - October 14, 2023

Over the past three-and-a-half decades, I have had the privilege of seeing some remarkably talented and gifted young actors on every stage on the Belmont campus and never have I ever left a performance there without feeling inspired, absolutely certain that the future of theater as we know it is pre...

by Jeffrey Ellis - June 29, 2023

One of musical theater’s most beloved offerings, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is again brought to life by Studio Tenn in a lovely – and certainly crowd-pleasing – production through July 16 at Christ Presbyterian Academy’s Soli Deo Center, which marks the welcome return to the Nashvi...