Memphis Theatre Newsroom

Enrollment is open for Tennessee Shakespeare Company's seven Summer Camps for participants ranging from rising 1st graders to recent high school graduates.

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced the 2025-2026 Orpheum Broadway Season featuring eight shows including five Memphis premieres. Learn more about the lineup here!

 Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson will return to light up the Next Stage at Theatre Memphis next month. Learn more about the upcoming performance and how to get tickets here!

Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) will bring G. Bernard Shaw’s masterwork of spiritual, political, and human inquiry, Saint Joan, to the Tabor Stage April 4-19.

Playhouse on the Square Education Department has announced open enrollment for Spring Theatre School. Theatre School classes are designed to provide a fun and challenging experience for both the beginner and the experienced performer.

Cumberland County Playhouse will present Moon Over Buffalo,” a fast-paced screwball comedy from the author of Lend Me A Tenor, Leading Ladies, and The Fox On The Fairway!

Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced its national call for applications for its third annual Classical Theatre Apprentice Program. This six-month-long Program will begin September 1, 2025, and will run through May 3, 2026.

A gathering of women promoting leadership, success and evolution in the arts will be held on the campuses of Theatre Memphis and Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

Playhouse on the Square will present its 57th season of shows starting on July 11th, 2025. The full lineup has been announced. Titles for the season include Seussical, Jagged Little Pill, and more. Get full details here!

Kindling Arts has announced the third annual installment of their fundraiser The Disco Ball with a vibrant new theme: Spellbound. The one-night-only performance party raises money to support local artist projects in the upcoming Kindling Artist Festival.

Seussical TYA is a beloved musical that captures the essence of Dr. Seuss's characters in a magical production by Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will host its 16th annual Children’s Literacy Gala in May, “American Celebrity Poetry-Slam” where the audience will decide the winners from our participating poets on the competitive runway.

Theatre Memphis has announced its 2025-26 season with a season decidedly dedicated to variety. All take a bow in the coming season to present quality entertainment to our patrons. 

Tennessee Shakespeare Company brings from the Irish page to the Tabor Stage its next installment of its Literary Salon Series: Lady Augusta Gregory: Revivalist of a Country on Sunday, March 2 at 3:00 pm.

Tickets for the Memphis engagement of The Wiz will go on sale Wednesday, February 12 at 10am for 8 performances July 22-27. Learn more about the show here!

​The Orpheum Theatre Group will launch a digital lottery for HAMILTON tickets, which will begin in conjunction with the show's first performance in February. Learn more ad see how to purchase tickets.

Hattiloo Theatre is currently presenting “Black Odyssey. The founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre and “Black Odyssey’s” co-director, alongside Maya Robinson, Ekundayo Bandele return to the stage as the play’s lead role. Learn more!

The Orpheum Theatre Group has announced that individual tickets for KIMBERLY AKIMBO will go on sale starting Friday, January 31 at 10am. Learn more here!

During the 2023-2024 school year, more than 10,000 books were banned in public schools across the United States-a nearly 200% increase from the previous year. This was the highest number of book bans in a single school year. What was banned? Books about mental health, suicide, substance abuse, sexual well-being, and puberty were axed.

The West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center will invite the public to join in celebrating the legacy of one of West Tennessee’s most influential blues musicians at the Sleepy John’s Country Blues Birthday Jam.

Jason Robert Brown, one of America’s most celebrated composers and lyricists of this new millennium, is currently enjoying a resurgence with two of his finest musicals. THE LAST FIVE YEARS, an off-Broadway hit that was later adapted into a film starring Anna Kendrick, is making its return to Broadway this year starring Joe Jonas and Adrienne Warren. Meanwhile, PARADE, which originally debuted on Broadway in 1998, had a triumphant revival last year starring Ben Platt and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

Winners have been announced for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Theatre Memphis is offering a preview performance experience in connection to its production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. The event is February 26, 2025, on the Theatre Memphis campus at 630 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN 38117.

Modern performing arts venue Hattiloo Theatre is currently selling tickets for its upcoming production “Black Odyssey.” Learn more about the show here!

Tennessee Shakespeare Company will explore the world's most infamous and bloody, yet innovative and cathartic, villains on its Tabor Stage with the premiere of The Grace of Grace: Shining a Light Through Shakespeare's Broken Villains