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Viola Davis, Jeff Daniels, Billy Porter And More Among 2023 Audie Award Finalists


The Audio Publishers Association has announced finalists for the 2023 Audie Awards®, the premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. Winners across 26 competitive categories will be revealed at the Audie Awards Gala on March 28. The ceremony will be streamed to the public from Chelsea Piers’ Pier Sixty in NYC. 

Review Roundup: What Did Critics Think of THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN at Syracuse Stage?


Syracuse Stage opens the 2019/2020 season with the world premiere production of 'Thoughts of a Colored Man.' Performance dates are Sept. 4 through 22. Reviews are in! Find out what critics thought of this new play.

THE FRIDAY FIVE: DEATHTRAP's Dortch, Greco and Jackson


Today, we focus our Friday Five spotlight on the intriguing Deathtrap trio of Christi Dortch, Dante Greco and Judy Jackson, as interesting a bunch of actors as you'll find in Nashville. Get to know them better, then book your seats to see Deathtrap…

THE WEIRD TREE to Premiere at FringeNYC


Invisible Wall Productions is proud to present The Weird Tree as part of the 19th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC.

LOVE LETTERS Features Two Casts at Street Theatre, 2/1 & 2


Just in time for Valentine's Day, Street Theatre Company opens its 2013 season with two special performances of Love Letters. Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is a unique and imaginative theatre piece that is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Evocative, touching, frequently funny, as the actors read the letters aloud, they chronicle over nearly 50 years of hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.

LOVE LETTERS to Feature Two Casts at Street Theatre, 2/1 & 2


Just in time for Valentine's Day, Street Theatre Company opens its 2013 season with two special performances of Love Letters. Love Letters by A. R. Gurney was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is a unique and imaginative theatre piece that is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Evocative, touching, frequently funny, as the actors read the letters aloud, they chronicle over nearly 50 years of hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.

New Series LIFE WITH LA TOYA and More Set for OWN's Fall 2012 Lineup


OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today new series and returning favorites coming to the network this fall along with three new series for 2013, including 'Life with La Toya' a candid look inside the life of the outspoken Jackson sibling, 'The Customer is Always Right' a high-stakes experiment with customers as the boss, and 'Neighborvention' where communities unite to help neighbors in crisis.

MUSIC CITY CONFIDENTIAL: Offstage, Onstage, Backstage and Beyond With Tennessee's Theaterati


Just when you thought it was safe to go to the theater once again, we welcome you to the debut installment of Music City Confidential, all the news that's fit to print (or not-depending on your perspective) from Nashville's ever-growing, ever-fascinating (okay, so we obviously don't have enough to occupy ourselves) live theater industry (we're trying that out-does it work? Let us know, theaterati!) Here amid the florid prose and flowery praise, you'll find all the stories that don't quite fit elsewhere, some of 'em kind of gossipy, some of 'em stone-cold serious, some of 'em just lists of names you need to know. You'll also find photos from our new "Intermission@" series, details about the latest cast parties and various and sundry minutiae-the veritable flotsam and jetsam-from backstage, onstage, offstage and beyond…

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM Concludes 2011-12 Season At Pull-Tight


Camping With Henry and Tom-directed by Lynda Gibbs-focuses on a 1921 camping trip that Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took into the Maryland woods to escape civilization. Inspired by that actual event, Camping with Henry and Tom is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership; a comedic and dramatic clash of three great historical figures, and what might have happened when they ventured off into the woods together.

Street Theatre's Youth Company Present O. HENRY Tales for the Holiday


Street Theatre Company presents its original production of classic O. Henry stories, written and adapted for the stage by Nashville playwright Scott Hutcheson (of the recently produced Alice in Wonderland, a Musical), and presented for a holiday season run December 10-18. This cast features 20 area teenagers and eight children, as well as Judy and Ken Jackson, two of Nashville's favorite adult actors.

Street Theatre's Youth Company Present O. HENRY Tales for the Holiday


Street Theatre Company presents its original production of classic O. Henry stories, written and adapted for the stage by Nashville playwright Scott Hutcheson (of the recently produced Alice in Wonderland, a Musical), and presented for a holiday season run December 10-18. This cast features 20 area teenagers and eight children, as well as Judy and Ken Jackson, two of Nashville's favorite adult actors.

Street Theatre's Youth Company Present O. HENRY Tales for the Holiday


Street Theatre Company presents its original production of classic O. Henry stories, written and adapted for the stage by Nashville playwright Scott Hutcheson (of the recently produced Alice in Wonderland, a Musical), and presented for a holiday season run December 10-18. This cast features 20 area teenagers and eight children, as well as Judy and Ken Jackson, two of Nashville's favorite adult actors.

CAKE OR DEATH Closes at Encore Theatre 3/14


Nashville playwrights Elizabeth Hayes and Anne-Geri Fann have written Cake or Death, 'a modern-day farce that is a witty, rollicking, Hitchcockian, roller-coaster of a ride and fun to the last crumb,' and slated for its world premiere production at Encore Theatre Company in Mount Juliet. The show plays its final performance on March 14.

CAKE OR DEATH to Have World Premiere Engagement at Encore Theatre 3/4-3/14


Nashville playwrights Elizabeth Hayes and Anne-Geri Fann have written Cake or Death, 'a modern-day farce that is a witty, rollicking, Hitchcockian, roller-coaster of a ride and fun to the last crumb,' and slated for its world premiere production at Encore Theatre Company in Mount Juliet March 4-14.

CAKE OR DEATH to Have World Premiere Engagement at Encore Theatre 3/4-3/14


Nashville playwrights Elizabeth Hayes and Anne-Geri Fann have written Cake or Death, 'a modern-day farce that is a witty, rollicking, Hitchcockian, roller-coaster of a ride and fun to the last crumb,' and slated for its world premiere production at Encore Theatre Company in Mount Juliet March 4-14.

Photo Flash: Tuesdays With Morrie At Art Space Nashville


Street Theatre Company, a non-profit arts organization dedicated to professional, affordable and accessible theatrical performances in Middle Tennessee, announces that it will present the unique combination of Tuesdays with Morrie and Parallel Lives at Art Space Nashville in Madison, TN, June 18 - July 19, 2009. Parallel Lives will show Thursdays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Tuesdays with Morrie will show Fridays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 2:00 p.m.. Tickets are $14/adults and $12 for students & seniors.

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