Nashville playwright Nate Eppler’s comedy about a tabloid queen who used to be a champion figure skater is on the shortlist for American Theatre Critics Association’s New Play Award.
Studio Tenn’s Next Season Will Bring Back Play Retelling The Battle Of Franklin’s Story
Franklin-based theater company Studio Tenn announced next season’s shows today. The lineup features the return of an original work and new productions of stories audiences may find familiar. September 7-17, 2017: The Battle of Franklin: A Tale of a House Divided A. S. Peterson wrote this dramatization of the desperate, bloody conflict that overwhelmed the […]
Labyrinth Of Gallery “Pods” Invites OZ Arts Fest Visitors To Step Inside The Art
An unusual take on the idea of a group art show is reappearing at this week’s OZ Arts Fest. Modular Art Pods offer festival-goers a trip through tiny, interconnected spaces, each its own art installation. Walking through can give the same pleasant or thrilling sort of disorientation as a carnival funhouse. The walls of most […]
Watkins’ Oldest Alumna Uses Career In Sales To Fuel Artistic Drive
When Mildred Jarrett started her studies at Watkins College of Art and Design (or, as it was then known, Watkins Institute), she was considered too young to be in figure studies classes with nude models. When she graduated with her Associates Degree in Fine Art in 2001, she was a half-century older than her classmates.
Nashville Ballet Premieres Its Version of A Middle Eastern Legend That Predates Muhammad
The Nashville ballet takes on one of the most retold stories in the Islamic world, this weekend: Layla and the Majnun. It’s something of a coincidence that the company is premiering a dance based on a Middle Eastern legend in a political season full of talk about Islam in schools and Syrian refugees.
Longtime Nashville Children’s Theatre Director Scot Copeland, 62, Dies Suddenly
The man who led the Nashville Children’s Theater for the last three decades has died. Scot Copeland passed away suddenly overnight. As a teen, Copeland co-founded a children’s theater in a small Alabama town. He went on to devote his entire career to producing plays for young audiences, saying he enjoyed how willing children were […]
Nashville Gets A Rare Look At One Of Europe’s Most Storied Art Collections
Visitors to Nashville’s Frist Center have a rare opportunity right now: the chance to see works by master artists that are normally displayed where only Europe’s elite can see them. The paintings, tapestries and books belong to one of Spain’s most storied noble families, the House of Alba. Most Americans have probably never heard of […]
Why The Nashville Symphony Is Catering To Video Gamers
Listen / Next week, hundreds of video gamers — many decked out in costumes — will head to a place where they typically don’t hang out: the Nashville Symphony. The occasion? A set of gaming-themed concerts that the symphony is putting on to attract this segment of the audience. The orchestra and chorus will be […]
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