Nashville Notes: Scattered, Smothered and Covered at Kaine Riggan's New Theatre
When I first set foot on Printer's Alley in November 1999, I thought "My, this would be a sweet place for a theatre." When I went to see a friend perform at the club across the alley from Bourbon...
View ArticleWe Must Be Aviators - "Fly Girl" - Bessie Coleman
Every American school child from the age of 6 up needs to see Fly Girl, Mary McCallum's supberbly crafted play about the life of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American, male or female, to hold an...
View Article"Becoming Kinky" (Friedman, that is)
"A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life" - Kinky Friedman You may have heard of a show called Always...Patsy Cline. Now, for 10 points, who wrote...
View ArticleMakin' Stuff Up in Nashville - A Home Away from Home
Nashville hit songwriter Rand Bishop has something to offer artists who would like to check out the Nashville scene - he is converting his charming home into a home-away-from-home for visiting...
View ArticleDown the Rabbit Hole: The Nashville Question
In 1999, I had a musical smack on Times Square - in the sadly departed Lamb's Theatre. I can't call it "Broadway" but I can't say it wasn't, either. For me it...
View ArticleNashville Notes
Another superlative show hits the boards out on Elm Hill Pike this weekend with Cathy Street's production of The Bad Seed. Those familiar with this piece only from the 1956 film, might be surprised by...
View ArticleNashville Notes - Out Front on Main
Out Front on Main is a classy and classic example of what has come to be called "storefront theatre," the kind you'd expect to find in cities like Chicago, San Francisco or Seattle, except...
View ArticleIndustry Overview: Disney Musicals in Schools
Nashville has been chosen as the first city outside of New York to participate in Disney Theatrical Group's "Disney Musicals in Schools" program, and here's how it happened. As a presenter of Broadway...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Regina Taylor Interview
CROWNS: The Gospel Musical, by Regina Taylor, is in rehearsal for it's Nashville premiere, Thursday, January 26th at Christ Church Cathedral as part of the Church's Sacred Space for the...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Interview with Dianna Holland by Jaz Dorsey
Nashville get ready - The Department of Theatre and Dance at Belmont University (www.belmont.edu) is about to offer us a chance to see one of the most powerful pieces of theatre ever written,...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Interview with Randi Michaels Block
We invite you to take a journey with Nashville playwright, composer and lyricist, Randi Michaels Block and her awesome new musical Guess Who's Coming to Seder? I was...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Jamey Green
If ever there was a model for a successful theatre company, The Boiler Room Theatre in Franklin, Tennessee is it. From their very nifty venue, which I have always assumed occupies...
View ArticleJaney Jones at The Lobby
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JANEY JONES is the current offering of The Tennessee Women's Theatre Project at the Z. Alexander Looby Theater and it's a swell vehicle for some fine Nashville actors. The cast...
View ArticleAtlanta Gothic: Part One
When I was a little boy growing up in my grandmother's home at 99 Peachtree Battle Avenue down in Atlanta, Georgia, spending my afternoons listening to the lp...
View ArticleTheatre Alert: Laramie Project @ USN!
Ask not what you think of the play - ask what the play thinks of you. From the folks who brought us the Nashville Premiere of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (and they said it wouldn't play in...
View ArticleSitting Shiva on Music Row?
Folks, if we don't do something, we're going to end up sitting shiva on Music Row. I know you're going "What the F--- is he talking about?" I'm talking about...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Tin Pan South
If anyone were to ask me the best time to come to Nashville, I would have to say "come to Tin Pan South." This awesome week long event which is produced by The...
View ArticleGONNE With the Wind: A Southerner Looks
I have a new muse and her name is Maud Gonne. Maud came at me like some demented Mary Poppins, off of the pages of books about the history of Ireland. And for me, Atlantan that I...
View ArticleWhy Write a Song
It all began with a song. Being a child of the 60s, my political mentors were all songwriters; Bob Dylan, Bufffy St. Marie, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Country Joe and the Fish, Janis Joplin and Grace...
View ArticleNashville Notes: Interview with Lucy Turner
Shirley Temple was a superstar at 6. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney hit their stride in their early teens. Haley Mills was a preteen when she charmed the...
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