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Essential Conversations
First Wednesday of every month
@ Scarritt-Bennett Center 1008 19th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village
Community Events@ Scarritt-Bennett Center 1008 19th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village
I'm not even religious, and still The Gospel of John fascinates me. It's just so weird. It starts: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,” and gets more cryptic from there. I love that kind of symbolic, mystical wordplay, and apparently so did early Christians, and the Hebrew testament is filled with bizarre (to my modern mind, at least) ideas about words giving power to things. Moses wasn't even granted access to God's real name when he asked for it, and Adam had all sorts of dominion over animals because he was the one to name them all. Scarritt-Bennett's interfaith Wisdom Center is taking this idea and running with it — words are filled with spiritual potential, and they can grant power to those who use them well. Their Essential Conversations, a yearlong series that takes place on the first and third Wednesday of every month, begins today. Each segment of the series is built around a specific word — like “hospitality,” “justice,” “reverence” and “grace” — that serves as its theme. Lunch is served, and a discussion about the spiritual implications of that particular word unfolds. The conversations are hosted by Wisdom House director Rabbi Rami Shapiro, who says that his aim is “to ask hard questions about religion, spirituality and the meaning and purpose of life without insisting upon one right answer.” Shapiro hopes that, simply by putting the question into words, deeper knowledge will be granted.
Nobody's Vault But Mine feat. Brian Olive, Boogaloosa Prayer & The Ultras SC
Sun., May 27, 8 p.m.
@ The Basement 1604 8th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
Rock@ The Basement 1604 8th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
Anyone even slightly familiar with Jack White and his Third Man Records likely knows of the iconic impresario’s obsession with the number three — hell, it’s right there in the name of his record label. Thus the impetus for the folks behind the annual fan-curated event Nobody’s Vault but Mine making this, their third installment, their final one ever. Conceived and organized online via a handful of Third Man fan forums, Nobody’s Vault but Mine is primarily a way for Third Man enthusiasts from all over to meet in person, and it features performances from fan favorites — most of them at least loosely affiliated with TMR in one way or another. Saturday night’s lineup will feature legendary former Flat Duo Jet — and one of Jack White’s clear primary influences — Dex Romweber with his sister Sara; garage-goth Third Man recording artists The Black Belles; Jeff Zentner and Elin Palmer; and Jane Rose and the Deadend Boys. On Sunday, there will be performances from Scene faves and brainy Saddle Creek punksters PUJOL; longtime garage rocker, former Greenhorne and current Dr. John sideman Brian Olive; local rag-tag, loud-as-shit rock ’n’ rollers The Ultras S/C (featuring TMR’s own Ben Swank on drums); and Boogaloosa Prayer. Even if you’re not a Third Man devotee, that’s a solid pair of bills.
$15
The Last Five Years
Through May 27
@ Street Theatre Company 1933 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37210 (map)
Nashville Unknown
Ongoing@ Street Theatre Company 1933 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37210 (map)
Nashville Unknown
Based in part on author Jason Robert Brown’s own experiences, this pop-rock musical attempts to deconstruct the faltering marriage of a writer and an actress. Critical response was very strong when it opened in Chicago more than a decade ago, and soon thereafter the move to off-Broadway resulted in Brown winning a Drama Desk Award for music and lyrics. It’s a two-character show, wherein Brown revisits the old “Abie’s Irish Rose” plotline — Jewish guy Jamie meets “shiksa goddess” Cathy — but cleverly moves the action both forward and in reverse, with the characters’ time-warped POVs allowing the audience a glimpse into their relationship’s critical uncertainties and ultimately fatal moves. (If that sounds potentially confusing, you’ve been alerted — and don’t be late for the opening curtain or you’ll be playing catch-up.) In an intriguing and rare decision, the Street Theatre Company production
will showcase two separate casts during the run of the production. Weekends
one and two feature Kacie Phillips and Ryan Greenwalt; real-life married couple Cori and Tyson Laemmel perform weekends three and four. Lauren Shouse directs. Some local theatergoers may remember that Boiler Room Theatre presented the show’s area premiere in 2004.
$16, $14 for students and seniors.
Here Lies Jeremy Troy
Ongoing
Old habits die hard at Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre, which is celebrating 45 years of successfully mixing fun dining and entertaining theater. Currently, the company is serving up this farce by Jack Sharkey, a playwright who’s made a significant career as the purveyor of comedies of misdirection. Here, a lawyer who seems to have everything finds his life suddenly in upheaval — on the very night his boss is coming over for dinner. As is so often the case at the Barn, even lighter-weight, slapstick-laced scripts such as this become better because there’s so much talent onstage, in this case, Rebekah Durham, Andy Kanies, Jennifer Richmond, Will Sevier and Lane Wright, all of them experienced and with good track records elsewhere. The direction is by Nate Eppler, a gifted actor himself and also currently serving as playwright-in-residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre. The show’s been running a while now, but you can still catch the laughter in this, its last, weekend.
$30-60
Fiddle and Guitar Demonstration feat. Renaé Truex and Carco Clavé
Sun., May 27, 1 p.m.
@ Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum 222 5th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
Country@ Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum 222 5th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
Moe Denham and Nick Nixon
Sun., May 27, 5:30 p.m.
@ Blakemore United Methodist Church 3601 West End Ave. (map)
Nashville Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade
Blues@ Blakemore United Methodist Church 3601 West End Ave. (map)
Nashville Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade
$10-$15
The Right Now
Sun., May 27, 7 p.m.
@ Muse 835 4th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.
Rock@ Muse 835 4th Ave. S. (map)
Nashville Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.
The Trishas w/Ruston Kelly
Sun., May 27, 8 p.m.
@ Third & Lindsley 818 3rd Ave. (map)
Nashville Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.
Rock@ Third & Lindsley 818 3rd Ave. (map)
Nashville Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.
$10
Don't Mention My Name
Fridays-Sundays. Continues through May 27
@ Lakewood Community Theater 2211 Old Hickory Blvd. (map)
Old Hickory Tennessee
Ongoing@ Lakewood Community Theater 2211 Old Hickory Blvd. (map)
Old Hickory Tennessee
Don't Mention My Name is a farce about an amnesiac who stumbles into a Vermont Inn and a mystery.
$14, $10 seniors and students
Maypole Dancing
Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through May 27
@ Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art 1200 Forrest Park Dr. (map)
Nashville Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade
Community Events@ Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art 1200 Forrest Park Dr. (map)
Nashville Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade
Guests will learn a traditional Maypole dance with the Nashville Ballet.
Future Break
Through May 27, 7:30 p.m.
@ Darkhorse Theater 4610 Charlotte Ave. (map)
Nashville Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville
Opening@ Darkhorse Theater 4610 Charlotte Ave. (map)
Nashville Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville
Directed by Mary McCallum, Shawn Whitsell, Kelly Falzone and Valerie S Hart.
$3-5
Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination
Mondays-Sundays. Continues through May 28
@ Frist Center for the Visual Arts 919 Broadway (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
Ongoing@ Frist Center for the Visual Arts 919 Broadway (map)
Nashville Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End
In a December issue of New York Magazine, critic Jerry Saltz argued that the trend toward accessibility in art exhibitions was turning museums into playgrounds. “Too many museums now equate happy crowds with quality and experimentation,” he concludes. The overlap between crowd-pleasing and thought-provoking seems slight, but it’s one of the first things that comes to mind when considering Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibit that opens today at The Frist. Dealt the heavy burden of being the primary source for exposing Nashvillians to capital-A Art, the Frist identifies its populist function without turning to what Saltz refers to as “arty junk food.” Where else are you going to see contemporary art celebrities like Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith alongside buzzed-about Allison Schulnik and Patricia Piccinini alongside local printmaker Mark Hosford? The exhibit of 60 paintings, photographs, sculptures and video works was organized by Frist curator Mark Scala, and, like 2009’s Paint Made Flesh (another exhibit Scala curated), it’s an expansive collection of contemporary works — some accessible, others experimental — tethered to a common, universally experienced idea.
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