Another of Music City’s progressive theater outlets is Gadabout Theater Company, which, when it comes out of hiding, has a knack for unearthing under-the-radar scripts marked by unpredictability and/or spoofy silliness. This evening celebrating gunslingers from days of yore opens with Matthew Hancock’s My Aim Is True, a renegade Western tale straight out of the fringe-fest playbook, in which a deadeye stranger comes to town and meets the locals. That one is directed by Ted Welch and Andy Kanies. Also on the bill is Out West by John Patrick Shanley (of Moonstruck and Doubt fame), a classic cowboy yarn in which everything happens in just a few minutes. Stephanie Houghton directs. The evening’s casts include Jessica Anderson, Gabe Atchley, Edd Garcia, Josh Inocalla and four other players better known on the alternative theater circuit. The live music is by Paige Nichols and Isaac Slutzky. Gadabout performances can usually be seen in rustic East Nashville venues, but sometimes, as in this case, the troupe makes it over to the West Side. MARTIN BRADY
My Aim Is True and Out West
