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CRITICS' CHOICE: This Weekend's Best Bets

CRITICS' CHOICE: This Weekend's Best Bets

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 19, 2015

Looking for a way to beat the heat this weekend? What's better than sinking into a seat in a darkened auditorium and letting the talented actors onstage whisk you way to a whole different world from the world iin which you toil Monday through Friday? Theater companies throughout the midstate are rea

CRITICS' CHOICE: Cool Down in the Dark

CRITICS' CHOICE: Cool Down in the Dark

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 16, 2015

Looking for an early summer diversion? We're happy to suggest some theatrical offerings to occupy your time, to keep you out of the heat and humidity - which seems to have really descended upon us this past week - and place you smack in the middle of a darkened auditorium that's certain to cool you

Cast, Creative Team Named for Chaffin's Barn's ALL SHOOK UP

Cast, Creative Team Named for Chaffin's Barn's ALL SHOOK UP

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 15, 2015

Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre - Nashville's venerable entertainment center, which for 49 years has been the theater home to thousands of actors, directors, technicians and artists - has announced the creative team and cast for this summer's eagerly anticipated production of All Shook Up, slated to r

CRITICS' CHOICE: Get Some Southern Hospitality

CRITICS' CHOICE: Get Some Southern Hospitality

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 12, 2015

We pride ourselves on our bounteous Southern hospitality here in Nashville, so who's gonna explain this: On Thursday, as thousands of country music fans gathered downtown for CMA Fest and thousands more fans of every musical genre you can think of were headed southward for the Bonnaroo Music Festiva

CRITICS' CHOICE: We Saw What You Did Last Summer

CRITICS' CHOICE: We Saw What You Did Last Summer

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 9, 2015

It's another busy theater week in Tennessee, and in Nashville there are an extra 50,000 to 100,000 country music fans jamming up traffic and increasing wait times at local restaurants, thanks to CMA Music Fest, which natives and longtimers will remember as Fan Fair.

BWW Reviews: The Keeton's GUYS AND DOLLS

BWW Reviews: The Keeton's GUYS AND DOLLS

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 5, 2015

Is there anything more magical or more transformative than live theater? Honestly, I can't think of anything which can take you from the depths of despair to the fanciful heights of imagination so quickly - and there certainly is no art form in which things can change so capriciously or quicker, eit

CRITICS' CHOICE: To The Theater Post-Haste

CRITICS' CHOICE: To The Theater Post-Haste

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 5, 2015

It's another busy weekend of new shows opening and many others continuing to delight audiences, with ACT 1's Dog Sees God and Street Theatre Company's Dogfight both opening tonight, while two shows that opened yesterday will continue to treat audiences to some especially wonderful music.

GUYS & DOLLS Opens at The Keeton Theatre Tonight

GUYS & DOLLS Opens at The Keeton Theatre Tonight

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 4, 2015

Jenny Norris Light plays Sarah Brown, with Michael Maupins as Sky Masterson, Hallie Long as Miss Adelaide and Brian Best as Nathan Detroit in The Larry Keeton Theatre's eagerly anticipated production of the classic Broadway music Guys and Dolls.

CRITICS' CHOICE: Go Theater-Hopping This Week

CRITICS' CHOICE: Go Theater-Hopping This Week

by Jeffrey Ellis — June 2, 2015

No matter what the calendar says, we're in early summer already - insofar as theater in Tennessee is concerned, at least - and there are four new shows opening this week that should command your attention.

GUYS & DOLLS Opens at The Keeton Theatre 6/4

GUYS & DOLLS Opens at The Keeton Theatre 6/4

by Jeffrey Ellis — May 28, 2015

Jenny Norris Light plays Sarah Brown, with Michael Maupins as Sky Masterson, Hallie Long as Miss Adelaide and Brian Best as Nathan Detroit in The Larry Keeton Theatre's eagerly anticipated production of the classic Broadway music Guys and Dolls.

BWW Reviews: Gaslight's THE ANDREWS BROTHERS

BWW Reviews: Gaslight's THE ANDREWS BROTHERS

by Jeffrey Ellis — April 24, 2015

Perhaps no singing group more aptly captures the spirit of America during World War II than the glorious Andrews Sisters: the sound of Patty, Maxene and Laverne somehow encapsulates the romantic notions of a world at war that still delights audiences and conjures up visions of all-American spirit an

CRITICS' CHOICE: What's Happening This Week in Nashville

CRITICS' CHOICE: What's Happening This Week in Nashville

by Jeffrey Ellis — April 19, 2015

Looking for something fun to do in Nashville this week? Have no fear, gentle BWW Nashville readers, our team of writers have done the necessary legwork - we're all about saving you time and helping you make informed decisions about how to spend your entertainment dollar, after all - and we are delig

BWW Reviews: I DO! I DO! Celebrates Love at Gaslight Dinner Theatre

BWW Reviews: I DO! I DO! Celebrates Love at Gaslight Dinner Theatre

by Jeffrey Ellis — February 6, 2015

Arriving at Dickson's Gaslight Dinner Theatre just in time for Valentine's Day and all those accompanying celebrations of love and marriage is I Do! I Do!, the other Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical (with The Fantasticks being the other other one - my apologies to fans of 110 in the Shade), that det

It's Back! MUSIC CITY CONFIDENTIAL Number 8

It's Back! MUSIC CITY CONFIDENTIAL Number 8

by Jeffrey Ellis — November 24, 2014

You will not believe it! The last time we gave you a Music City Confidential (number seven), the London Olympics were winding up, LaToya Gardner and Kevin Mead were starring in Circle Players' Aida, Maggie Richardson and Cody Rutledge were headlining Xanadu at the Arts Center of Cannon County, and M

Those Out There in The Dark: Audience Antics and Other Tall Tales From Off-Stage

Those Out There in The Dark: Audience Antics and Other Tall Tales From Off-Stage

by Jeffrey Ellis — May 9, 2012

Norma Desmond sings about them "out there in the dark" in Sunset Boulevard, Lauren Bacall dealt with a particularly sinister and deranged one in her 1981 film The Fan, and virtually everyone you know who had taken to the stage in a show anywhere around the world can regale you with stories about the

BWW Reviews: Plodding WRITER'S BLOCK Debuts At Chaffin's Barn

BWW Reviews: Plodding WRITER'S BLOCK Debuts At Chaffin's Barn

by Jeffrey Ellis — September 17, 2011

There's nobody who loves a tautly written thriller more than I - you know, the type of mystery where there's much conniving going on, one's baser desires are satiated, intelligence triumphs over the dull and commonplace.


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