Review: FAIRVIEW Opens the 20th Anniversary Season at Capital Stage
by Courtney Symes - Sep 17, 2024
Capital Stage is embarking on an exciting 20th anniversary season. Kicking it off is Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fairview. It’s a timely discussion about race, society, and expectations that leaves one asking questions long after the last bo
Review: See the Explosive AFTER THE BLAST at Big Idea Theatre
by Courtney Symes - Nov 13, 2023
It wasn’t that long ago that novels like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road would have been considered farfetched. A post-apocalyptic wasteland, previously only imaginable, now seems not only plausible but eventually probable. Zoe Kazan takes it a bit further with her stark rendering of the future of America in the smartly written After the Blast, where survivors don’t have the luxury of wandering a barren and dangerous landscape like McCarthy’s boy and his father. Instead, they are miles beneath the surface of the Earth and, generations later, have no first-hand memory of the world above.
YouTube Adds Morgan Wallen, Hardy, The Lone Bellow and More to CASH FEST Nov. 10
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Nov 7, 2019
Morgan Wallen, Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes, Brandon Lancaster of LANCO, The Lone Bellow, Hardy and Kassi Ashton join previously announced artists Little Big Town, Matt Shultz of Cage The Elephant, Perry & Etty Farrell, Elle King, Midland, Judah & The Lion, Grace Potter, Wilder Wood, John Oates, Cam, Drew & Ellie Holcomb, Devin Dawson, Lucie Silvas and more set to perform at YouTube's first-ever “Cash Fest” on November 10 in Nashville. Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters regretfully is no longer slated to appear.
Main Street Theatre Works presents THE CRUCIBLE
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 12, 2017
Witches are coming to the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre in Jackson as Main Street Theatre Works presents Arthur Miller's classic play, The Crucible, directed by Susan McCandless.
SARTA Announces 2016 Elly Nominees!
by Christina Mancuso - Aug 8, 2016
More than 410 Elly nominees for the 2015-16 season were announced at an informal nomination reception on Sunday, August 7, 2016 beginning at 7pm. More than 100 actors, directors, technicians, and producers were on hand to listen excitedly for their names to be called. This year's theme is Some Enchanted Ellys.
Capital Stage to Present MACBETH, 10/23-11/24
by Tyler Peterson - Sep 27, 2013
Capital Stage continues its ninth season, THEHOMEFRONT, Capital Stage's 2013-14 Season of Soul-Stirring plays with an original adaptation of William Shakespeare's dark tragedy, MACBETH.Shakespeare, the father of English literature wrote MACBETH between 1603 and 1607. Since then, the Macbeths have remained one of the most fascinating couples in all of drama. Capital Stage's production will be adapted and directed by artistic director,Stephanie Gularte and will feature Scott Coopwood and Janis Stevens as the murderous couple. MACBETH runs from October 23 through November 24 with a press opening on October 26.