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Photo Coverage: First Night: The Preview Party at The Listening Room Cafe

Photo Coverage: First Night: The Preview Party at The Listening Room Cafe

by Jeffrey Ellis — July 12, 2011

Danny Proctor, Helen Shute-Pettaway, Layne Sasser, Pam Atha, Dan Brewer and Gary Hoff were introduced Monday night as the six members of the 2011 Class of First Night Honorees during the First Night Preview Party, hosted by founder and executive producer Jeffrey Ellis at The Listening Room Cafe in d

BWW Reviews: A PERFECT GANESH from Rhubarb Theater Company

BWW Reviews: A PERFECT GANESH from Rhubarb Theater Company

by Jeffrey Ellis — April 9, 2011

Coming between Lips Together, Teeth Apart and Love! Valour! Compassion! in the canon of Terrence McNally's works, A Perfect Ganesh - despite its Pulitzer Prize nomination - remains relatively unknown, seldom produced and somewhat unappreciated by theater audiences.

Cooking up A PERFECT GANESH with Crist and Janiszewski

Cooking up A PERFECT GANESH with Crist and Janiszewski

by Jeffrey Ellis — April 8, 2011

Trish Crist and Jaime Janiszewski should be artist's models: Crist, tall and titian-tressed, has a visage of timeless, classic beauty - she easily could have been the inspiration for all those towering statues of womanhood signifying liberty, freedom and all manner of other lofty aspirations.

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Directors

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Directors

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 17, 2011

If theater audiences in Nashville and Middle Tennessee owe a huge debt of gratitude to the directors who helm the year's finest productions, you can only imagine how the actors lucky enough to work with those insightful, creative men and women must be! The Top Ten Directors of 2010 have resumes anyo

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Actors in a Play

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Actors in a Play

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 14, 2011

Nashville actors displayed an astonishing range in 2010, playing some of the most coveted roles in theater with imagination and creativity and exhibiting new stage personas for characters making their initial debuts in new, original works.

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: The 'Esoteric' Lists

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: The 'Esoteric' Lists

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 13, 2011

Not all of the Top Ten Lists announced at Winter's First Night on Sunday, January 9, were serious, high-toned salutes to all that is special and spectacular about live theater in Nashville.

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Plays

First Night's Top Ten of 2010: Nashville's Best Plays

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 13, 2011

Nashville theater audiences were treated to a wide range of dramatic offerings in 2010, with the revival of some of the best-known American plays of the past half-century, along with productions of some amazing original works by a group of talented homegrown playwrights, whose subjects ranged from w

Photo Coverage: Winter's First Night Nashville

Photo Coverage: Winter's First Night Nashville

by Jeffrey Ellis — January 11, 2011

Amid threatening weather forecasts and a winter storm bearing down on the South, more than 150 hardy souls gathered to celebrate live theatre in Nashville and Middle Tennessee with the presentation of the BroadwayWorld.

Excitement Grows for First Night Nashville Theatre Honors, 9/19

by BWW News Desk — September 19, 2010

As Nashville's summer theater season continues to heat up, anticipation continues to grow for September's First Night Nashville Theatre Honors, the revival of the Music City theater gala that will benefit Reading is Fundamental (RIF) and sponsored by Macy's and BroadwayWorld.

BWW Reviews: THE IMAGINARY INVALID from ACT 1

by Jeffrey Ellis — August 19, 2010

In a stylish and immensely entertaining fashion, director Melissa Bedinger Hade and her capable and confident band of merry players deliver a pleasantly diverting late-summer offering of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid to open ACT 1's 2010-11 season with vigorous aplomb at Darkhorse Theatre.


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