Bekah Brunstetter’s play is onstage through Oct. 30 at TPAC’s Johnson Theater

Nashville Shakes and Kennie Playhouse Theatre unite for Cymbeline and Gem of the Ocean

The Actors Bridge Ensemble choreopoem debuts this week 

The theater's Emerging Artists Company will stage She Kills Monsters Aug. 5-7

The play marks Matt Logan Productions and the Rabbit Room’s newly established theater program

The lauded designer-director Matt Logan will adapt Corrie Ten Boom's memoir about the Dutch resistance  

The Broadway musical continues through April 24 at TPAC’s Jackson Hall

The play stars Vali Forrister and runs through April 16 

Nashville Rep playwright-in-residence Nate Eppler moves to the Bug to direct the program

Hamilton kicks off the season, which includes seven Nashville premieres

The world premiere production continues through March 27

The comedic drama continues Feb. 17-20 at TPAC’s Andrew Johnson Theater

The Broadway adaptation of Tina Fey's classic film is at TPAC through Feb. 13

Talking with Bob Roberts about the lasting impact of the city’s oldest performing arts institution

Onstage through Sunday at TPAC's Polk Theater 

The rock musical continues at Darkhorse Theater through Nov. 6

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical continues at TPAC through Oct. 24

Learn about storytelling through songs, African American playwrights and more 

Catch the perennial favorite at Summer Shakespeare through Sept. 12 

The film explores the seven deadly sins through the lenses of fatness and Blackness 

Actor Kamal Angelo Bolden returns to Nashville to play Booster 

Poor Bonnie. All she wanted to do was take a little road trip to surprise her fiancé Jedidiah, who’s off training to be a youth pastor at a mountain retreat (and who seems to have stopped returning her calls). I mean, what could go wrong?

Upcoming performances include The Band's Visit, The Lion King, Mean Girls and more

Destiny Theatre Experience and SistaStyle Productions partner with TPS for new programs

Under the direction of Scene fave Jon Royal, the Nashville Repertory Theatre has kicked off its new Young Voices Competition. Twenty-two students from around the city studied the works of acclaimed playwright and poet Idris Goodwin and chose a poem or monologue to perform from his collected …

Shawn Whitsell is widely known in local circles for his work as both a gifted theater artist and a dedicated activist. And beginning March 25, he’ll be able to merge those two passions with a new drama class at Nashville Children’s Theatre.

A play ends. The lights come on. Spectators gather their belongings. And then, a crew member brings several chairs onstage, and the actors and director come walking out. 

It’s been almost exactly one year since OZ Arts closed its doors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But this weekend, the contemporary arts center will reopen with a unique work that promises to explore timely issues of isolation and interpersonal connection.

Feb. 11 would have been David Compton’s 59th birthday. And while Nashville’s theater community still mourns the loss of this remarkable actor, director, designer and educator, who died in 2016, it’s clear that his legacy lives on. In fact, Rosemary Fossee has marked the occasion with the rel…

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, I've just realized. If you’re also surprised by this news, maybe you don’t have anything planned. You can get in the spirit with a series produced by the Nashville Repertory Theater, Actually Love: Dramatic Readings of Historical Love Letters. Released o…

On Monday, Verge Theater Company continues conVERGEnce, the virtual discussion series that has been opening up conversations about representation in theater. Past discussions centered on anti-racism and reimagining arts institutions. At 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, Verge will host New Works as a P…

The holidays are quickly approaching, and already the Tennessee Performing Arts Center has wrapped up the perfect treat with its newly filmed version of Mark Cabus’ acclaimed solo performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. But what started as a way to reach local students has emerged…

In October, the small-but-mighty Verge Theater Company kicked off conVERGEnce, a series of conversations with theater makers and arts professionals that address contemporary issues in the industry from the sound booth to the board room. Ahead of that virtual discussion, Verge board member Te…

Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre — a mainstay in the local arts community — has announced that it’s closing its doors, ending its 53-year run as the nation’s second-oldest dinner theater.

Along with the industries of music, film and visual art, theater is having a reckoning about systemic racism. In June, a group of more than 300 BIPOC theater makers formed the group WE SEE YOU, WHITE AMERICAN THEATER and published a letter excoriating the industry for the inequitable practic…

Within days of the COVID-19 shutdown in March, local theater companies began fielding a barrage of questions from concerned patrons. When will performances resume? What does this mean for ticket holders? Four months later, struggling arts organizations face an even more pressing conundrum — …

Since 2011, Tennessee Performing Arts Center has been putting local students in the spotlight with its Disney Musicals in Schools program. In fact, TPAC Education and Metro Nashville Public Schools actually pioneered the innovative program, when they were selected by Disney Theatrical Group …

Verge Theater Company — one of Nashville’s best small-theater groups and certainly the most fun — announced a call for submissions for a virtual cabaret.

Nashville Repertory Theatre brought its season-reveal party online yesterday, announcing the first of its 2020-21 productions on Facebook, Instagram and on the nonprofit’s website. Karen Sternberg — who destroyed us all as Blanche DuBois in February’s A Streetcar Named Desire — announced the…

There’s a longstanding debate in the theater world — is sound a technical field or an artistic form? For Nashville-based director-designer William Kyle Odum, it’s both.

With a blend of classics and new hit sensations, there’s something for everyone in Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s 2020-21 Broadway season.

Director Nat McIntyre and his stellar cast give A Streetcar Named Desire contemporary chops

Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Macbeth officially opened at Belmont’s Troutt Theater last week, with a clash of swords and a bleak but thoroughly engrossing vision. 

From Joan Didion to Gabriel García Márquez, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, literature is often preoccupied with memory, a theme that Nashville Story Garden takes on in If You Forget Me. Written by Chicago-based playwright Nora Leahy — who is also managing director of that city’s Jackalo…