Kindling's Very Special Holiday Special, a cherished annual tradition, will return with the third (and possibly final!) screening of the cult classic The Muppet Christmas Carol with a signature Kindling Arts twist.
Kindling Arts will present 19 projects for its 2025 Festival, united by the 'Fortunes & Fates' festival theme. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!
Tennessee Playwrights Studio has announced the TPS 2025 Virtual Reading Festival. Tickets are free, and the festival is open to the public. Learn more here!
Kindling Arts will present its signature holiday fundraising event Kindling's Very Special Holiday Special again this December, featuring an unforgettable screening of the cult classic The Muppet Christmas Carol for the second year in a row.
Discover 13 unique projects at Kindling Arts' 2024 Festival, featuring immersive dance-theater, outdoor sports-theater, comedy, and performance art, all exploring the theme of Imperfections. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.
The 7th annual KINDLING ARTS FESTIVAL is set to fill West Nashville venues with contemporary dance, devised theater, performance art, and more, from July 18-21, 2024. Learn how to apply!
Kindling Arts presents its second annual holiday special featuring a screening of 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and live performances. Join in the festive fun on December 21st and 22nd at the Darkhorse Theater in Nashville. Tickets on sale now.
The high-impact, four-day Festival features a wide array of performance art, including the return of the popular Bar Fight! series, wildly inventive new theatrical mash-ups, iconic and unconventional late-night parties, emerging dance talent, and more - all celebrating the timely concept of Counterculture.
Nashville's radically unique independent arts incubator Kindling Arts has announced the official dates for its 2023 festival of live performances taking place Thursday, July 27 through Sunday, July 30, 2023.
Starring Blake Holliday as a familiar iconic actress in the middle of a jolly good meltdown, the festive holiday cabaret fundraiser will be held at The American Legion Post 82 in East Nashville and will feature a variety of special guests.
It's duets and drop kicks at Princess Daddy's Fight Night & Karaoke, the underground fight club where songs are slayed and rivalries are laid to rest. BAR FIGHT! will tkae place at Ozari Events on Friday, July 29th and Saturday July 30th at 9PM (doors at 8PM).
The Kindling Arts Festival has announced the 2022 line-up for the 4-day celebration of performing arts experiences from Thursday, July 28 through Sunday, July 31 at five distinct venues across West Nashville.
Jessika Malone (a Fred Coe Artist-in-Residence) directs the Vanderbilt University Theatre production Orlando, Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of a 1928 novel by Virginia Woolf, through February 24.
Design categories, road shows, theatrical events and the 12 people whose achievements in 2017 are particularly noteworthy were revealed tonight as part two of First Night's Top Ten of 2018 - critic Jeffrey Ellis' annual review of the best in Tennessee theater was presented during a live Facebook broadcast with two of the hosts of Midwinter's First Night (Ashley Wolfe and J. Robert Lindsay) announcing the work recognized among the best of 2017.
Do you want to grow things or kill things? As a teenage goddess, Seph lives in her family's in-between. With her mom, she makes grass grow and flowers bloom.
Do you want to grow things or kill things? As a teenage goddess, Seph lives in her family's in-between. With her mom, she makes grass grow and flowers bloom.
Haunted the new collaboration between cutting edge Nashville arts organizations Actors Bridge Ensemble, abrasiveMedia, and FALL: contemporary - aerial dance may heralds fresh way of creating performances in Music City.
The most wonderful time of the year is quickly drawing to a close: 2017 Sideshow Fringe Festival opened last week only runs through this Sunday, August 6, but until then you have a jam-packed calendar of creative, imaginative and adventurous theater to inspire you and to enlighten you - perhaps even enough to keep you satisfied until the 2018 rendition rolls around.
Feeling the urge to let your imagination run wild, your spirit to soar or to just leave the world in which you live and go on an adventure? Sounds like a trip to the theater is in order! Luckily, companies all over the Volunteer State have been hard at work, creating new productions to transform and to transport, shows that will entertain you this summer. That's where THE NASHVILLE THEATER CALENDAR comes in handy: Peruse our listings every week to find out what shows you should see!
Today, our FRINGE-y 5 spotlight focuses on internationally recognized performance artist, producer and educator Matthew Marcum, whose work combines text, sound, movement, and optics to create contemporary theatre productions, live art events, conceptual installations and educational workshops. Marcum holds a dual MFA in Theatre Performance Making from The University of Chichester in the U.K. and the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.
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