George W. Manus News

There's just a few weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Tennessee Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Tennessee Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday December 05, 2011.

There's just 4 weeks left to go in voting for the 2011 Tennessee Awards and here is the latest update! Have you voted yet, and helped to spread the word to support your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Tennessee Award? There is no time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Tuesday November 29, 2011.

Voting is now well underway for the 2011 Tennessee Awards and here is the latest update! Now, it's time for you to get out and vote for your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Tennessee Award. No time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday November 21, 2011.

Voting is now open for the 2011 Tennessee Awards! Now it's time for you to get out and vote for your favorites in the hopes that they will be the recipients of a 2011 BroadwayWorld Tennessee Award. No time to waste, click on the voting link and make your opinion count! Below are the stats so far as of Monday November 14, 2011.

Out Front on Main presents Tracy Letts' Bug, directed for the stage by George W. Manus, Jr., focuses on 'on an unhinged war veteran who holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room, while the line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.' It runs October 13-31, Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m. with an additional show on Halloween night followed by a costume ball.

Directed by Buddy R. Jones, Jeffrey is like a nostalgic trip to the 1990s for older audience members, many of whom remember the tenor of those times intimately. Intelligently, Jones approaches Jeffrey as a period piece, ensuring that the design aesthetic for the show helps to capture the underlying confusion and questions of the advent of the AIDS era. And by casting two longtime friends - Manus and Richard Browder in the pivotal roles of Jeffrey and Sterling - he gives the production a sturdy underpinning that makes the story funnier and more poignant.

Buddy R. Jones directs Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey, starring longtime friends and collaborators George W. Manus Jr. and Richard Browder, for Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main, Inc. for a three week run August 11-28, with shows Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

Buddy R. Jones directs Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey, starring longtime friends and collaborators George W. Manus Jr. and Richard Browder, for Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main, Inc. for a three week run August 11-28, with shows Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

That all-too-personal journey taken by two upper middle-class parents, grieving the accidental death of their four-year-old son, gives structure and form to Rabbit Hole, now onstage at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main theater in a compellingly acted and tautly directed production staged by George W. Manus Jr. Thanks to the total commitment of Manus' five-member ensemble of actors, Rabbit Hole is brought searingly to life, leavened with enough humor to make its impact all the more heartfelt, while affording audiences an opportunity to see a deeply personal story acted out on stage that one day ultimately might have a greater impact on their collective psyche.

David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole, opens at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main on Thursday, July 14, for a limited two-week run.

Opening July 14 for a limited two week run is David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner Rabbit Hole directed for the stage by George W. Manus, Jr. Rabbit Hole runs Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30pm, July 14-24. Tickets are $10. general admission or $5. students/seniors www.outfrontonmain.com

Out Front on Main, Inc. presents a showcase of challenging and thought provoking one act plays opening Thursday, May 19. Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, directed by Ryan Daniel, and Therac 25, directed by Buddy Jones, will run through June 5, with performances Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

The theatrical legacy of playwright Lanford Wilson will be commemorated at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main theater with the company's production of Burn This, closing May 1.

The theatrical legacy of playwright Lanford Wilson will commemorated at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main with the company's production of Burn This, running April 14-May 1, with shows Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

The theatrical legacy of playwright Lanford Wilson will commemorated at Murfreesboro's Out Front on Main with the company's production of Burn This, running April 14-May 1, with shows Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

In recognition of the centennial of Williams' birth, I conducted a very unscientific survey among Nashville theater folk to determine which of his plays are the most popular and the best loved. Perhaps surprisingly, the top vote-getters in our informal survey were A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and Summer and Smoke, shows that have been given memorable (so memorable, in fact, that people continue to talk about them) productions in Music City in the last century. Members of the Nashville theaterati have definite ideas where Williams' plays are concerned.

George W. Manus Jr. directs Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman to mark the first anniversary of his Murfreesboro-based theater company, Out Front on Main Inc. Running, March 17-April 3, The Pillowman is performed Thursday through Sunday evenings at 7:30 p.m.

Bob Fish directs John Mack Green, Kelly Northcutt Hayes and Nathan Leavitt in Charles Evered's Adopt A Sailor, opening Thursday, February 10, for a three-week run at Out Front on Main in Murfreesboro.

Bob Fish directs John Mack Green, Kelly Northcutt Hayes and Nathan Leavitt in Charles Evered's Adopt A Sailor, opening Thursday, February 10, for a three-week run at Out Front on Main in Murfreesboro.