Neville News

The Last Fall is a poignant love story that follows two fifty-somethings as they mature in life and love while facing difficult truths. The audience follows Rhea, an urban school teacher, and Neville, a Trinidad-born taxi driver, as they struggle with the challenges before them.

Meadow Brook Theatre's 2009-2010 season interns proudly present two one act shows that are sure to keep audience members rolling in the aisles. This uproarious evening starts off with Puppet Play by Robert "Bo" Anderson. Big D is the successful star of a children's puppet show, yet his inability to cope with his emerging identity crisis puts the show in jeopardy. Similarly Mark's inability to acknowledge his feelings for Tina puts their relationship in peril. Will everyone own up to their true feelings and faults or will they continue to be society's puppets?

Meadow Brook Theatre's 2009-2010 season interns proudly present two one act shows that are sure to keep audience members rolling in the aisles. This uproarious evening starts off with Puppet Play by Robert "Bo" Anderson. Big D is the successful star of a children's puppet show, yet his inability to cope with his emerging identity crisis puts the show in jeopardy. Similarly Mark's inability to acknowledge his feelings for Tina puts their relationship in peril. Will everyone own up to their true feelings and faults or will they continue to be society's puppets?

Boiler Room Theatre alumna and American Idol Season 6 finalist Melinda Doolittle returns to Franklin for a one-night-only concert event with all proceeds going to the Boiler Room Theatre on Monday, April 12 at 7 p.m. in Liberty Hall at The Factory. Acclaimed contemporary gospel performers Point of Grace will share the stage for the fundraising concert for Williamson County's only professional theatre company.

CEG Presents and Nolafunk.com welcome the Mardi Gras Road Show to New York City. The Mardi Gras Road Show tour features two New Orleans giants, Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and Rebirth Brass Band, bringing their gritty, stomping, funk and brass party and throwing down at venues across the country. From the Crescent City to the Big Apple, the Mardi Gras Road show will make stops in NYC on April 1st and 2nd.

The Tricycle Theatre will present Women, Power and Politics, a season opening immediately after the general election, exploring the history and current role of women in politics in Great Britain through twelve different plays, a film festival, curtain raisers (in conjunction with the National Theatre Studio) and an exhibition in the Tricycle's Gallery.

The Los Angeles Times has interviewed THE WAKE author Lisa Kron about her new play that discusses the 2000 Presidential Election and 9/11. Obie Award-winner Lisa Kron reunites with Leigh Silverman, who directed Kron's highly acclaimed 2006 production of 'Well' on Broadway, to present this new play to Los Angeles audiences.

Tickets will be available at the door for The Secret Garden to be presented by the Franklin Performing Arts Company on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Thomas D. Mercer Auditorium in Franklin. A Tony Award winning musical with a beautiful score by Lucy Simon brings to life the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Tickets will be available at the door for The Secret Garden to be presented by the Franklin Performing Arts Company on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Thomas D. Mercer Auditorium in Franklin. A Tony Award winning musical with a beautiful score by Lucy Simon brings to life the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Multi-Grammy® Award winning a cappella vocal sextet Take 6 returns to the Blue Note for a week of concerts from March 30 - April 4. The group is continuing to perform tracks from their latest CD, The Standard (Heads Up, 2008), which features standards from the jazz and pop genres. Take 6 is currently working on their next studio album, to be released later this year.

The New York Choral Society will celebrate its 51st Anniversary with a Winter Gala on March 11, 2010 at The National Arts Club.

Tickets will be available at the door for The Secret Garden to be presented by the Franklin Performing Arts Company on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 14 at 2:00 p.m. at Thomas D. Mercer Auditorium in Franklin. A Tony Award winning musical with a beautiful score by Lucy Simon brings to life the classic story by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Nigel Redden, Director of the Lincoln Center Festival, which runs from July 7 through July 25, 2010, today announced the Festival's line-up, which includes ten North American, U.S., and New York premieres, and debuts. The Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island-the North American premiere of Peter Stein's 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's searing Teorema, adapted and staged by Ivo van Hove.

Theatre: Straightjacket Productions' Men didn't miss a beat - the show went up a little late waiting for the storm battered audience to arrive. They were rewarded with complimentary drinks from Poverty Hill winery, one of the production sponsors.

The Nashville Symphony welcomes two of the world's most acclaimed conductors in back-to-back weekends as English conductor Sir Neville Marriner conducts William Walton's Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario on February 25-27, 2010, and German conductor Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach's Mass in B minor on March 4-6, 2010.

The cast and designers have been set and rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of Lisa Kron's "The Wake," presented by Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. "The Wake" opens on March 28, 2010, and continues through April 18. Previews begin March 21.

The Nashville Symphony welcomes two of the world's most acclaimed conductors in back-to-back weekends as English conductor Sir Neville Marriner conducts William Walton's Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario on February 25-27, 2010, and German conductor Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach's Mass in B minor on March 4-6, 2010.

Meadow Brook Theatre's 2009-2010 season interns proudly present two one act shows that are sure to keep audience members rolling in the aisles. This uproarious evening starts off with Puppet Play by Robert "Bo" Anderson. Big D is the successful star of a children's puppet show, yet his inability to cope with his emerging identity crisis puts the show in jeopardy. Similarly Mark's inability to acknowledge his feelings for Tina puts their relationship in peril. Will everyone own up to their true feelings and faults or will they continue to be society's puppets?

The New York Choral Society will celebrate its 51st Anniversary with a Winter Gala on March 11, 2010 at The National Arts Club.

National Jazz Museum in Harlem Events from February 22-28, 2010