Memphis Theatre Newsroom

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

Circuit Playhouse, will present Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau. Skeleton Crew runs January 31st through February 16th, 2025 at The Circuit Playhouse.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Inherit the Wind, a dramatic and inspired explosive legal drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, will hold court in the Next Stage at Theatre Memphis. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Playhouse on the Square will present Parade next month. With a book by Alfred Uhry, and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, the show was co-conceived and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince.

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora will run at TheatreWorks@TheSquare.

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Playhouse on the Square will present the 7th annual PlaySlam! 2024: Empathy in Action! at Overton Square Performing Arts District.

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Memphis Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

These are some of the first lyrics that made me fall in love with musical theatre. I have been a fan of Peter Pan as long as I can remember, and was always jumping around my room, trying to fly. When I worked at Walt Disney World, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell were my favorite characters to work with, and before I left Disney, I got a tattoo of Peter's shadow, to always remind me to embrace my inner child.