Best of Nashville
Arts & Entertainment
Best College Theater Program
Belmont University
It certainly helps to have a beautiful new theater facility. But Belmont has been turning out talented actors and musical performers for a good while, including Blue Man Group's Christopher Brown (the star of recent local productions of Coriolanus and Much Ado About Nothing) and American Idol's Melinda Doolittle. Energetic theater department head Paul Gattrell has shored up the acting program with the hire of Bill Feehely, and he's entered into collaborative relationships with local theater entities. Small wonder the young players who pepper every one of the college's productions seem unusually stage-savvy. —MARTIN BRADY
