Theater
| Nifty Knickers by Martin Brady 
Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s current mounting of The Underpants, Steve Martin’s adaptation of German playwright Carl Sternheim’s 1910 farce, shows just how far production values can go in goosing the entertainment factor. |
From the Archives
Character Assassinationby Martin Brady
Stephen Sondheim transformed the American musical in many ways, some more unexpected than others.
(May 01, 2008)
Oedipus Complex
People’s Branch Theatre’s The Antigone Cycle, updates Sophocles’ three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone), often known as the Oedipus Cycle, by presenting the story’s classic family conflicts and violent motivations in a hip-hop context.
(Apr 24, 2008)
Hardcore Troubadour
by Martin Brady
Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera, is just the kind of action-packed extravaganza that Nashville Opera artistic director John Hoomes revels in.
(Apr 10, 2008)
Lady Saves the Day
by Martin Brady
“Singing is living to me,” says Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, and the new production at Tennessee State University certainly affirms that.
(Apr 03, 2008)
Ruff and Ready
by Martin Brady
In their stage adaptation of P.D. Eastman’s classic children’s book Go, Dog. Go!, Steven Dietz and Allison Gregory refuse to monkey with the spare original text, yet find ways to expand on the book’s pictorial elements.
(Mar 27, 2008)
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