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Edward C. Smith
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Nashville Repertory Theatre's Stellar 39th Season Continues With Superb Prooduction of THE COLOR PURPLE (Apr 9, 2024)
MOIPEI to Make North Carolina Debut at The Edward C. Smith Civic Center (Feb 12, 2024)
Jeff Calhoun Directed ELVIS - A MUSICAL REVOLUTION Opens the Season at the Walnut Street Theatre (Sep 8, 2023)
Nashville Repertory Theatre's Stellar 39th Season Continues With Superb Prooduction of THE COLOR PURPLE (Apr 9, 2024)
MOIPEI to Make North Carolina Debut at The Edward C. Smith Civic Center (Feb 12, 2024)
Jeff Calhoun Directed ELVIS - A MUSICAL REVOLUTION Opens the Season at the Walnut Street Theatre (Sep 8, 2023)
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Nashville Repertory Theatre's Stellar 39th Season Continues With Superb Prooduction of THE COLOR PURPLE
Led by a bravura performance from Carli Hardon, Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of The Color Purple – the musical based on the beloved Alice Walker novel – is yet another extraordinary success from the professional company in the midst of its 39th season. Directed with complete self-assurance and confidence by Reggie Law, with evocative and energetic choreography by Joi Ware and the musical direction of Dion Treece that results in one of the most emphatically sung shows in Nashville Rep history.
Led by a bravura performance from Carli Hardon, Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of The Color Purple – the musical based on the beloved Alice Walker novel – is yet another extraordinary success from the professional company in the midst of its 39th season. Directed with complete self-assurance and confidence by Reggie Law, with evocative and energetic choreography by Joi Ware and the musical direction of Dion Treece that results in one of the most emphatically sung shows in Nashville Rep history.
MOIPEI to Make North Carolina Debut at The Edward C. Smith Civic Center
MOIPEI will make their North Carolina debut at The Edward C. Smith Civic Center in Lexington NC. Learn how to purchase tickets.
MOIPEI will make their North Carolina debut at The Edward C. Smith Civic Center in Lexington NC. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Jeff Calhoun Directed ELVIS - A MUSICAL REVOLUTION Opens the Season at the Walnut Street Theatre
The new musical Elvis – A Musical Revolution will make it's North American premiere at the Walnut Street Theatre. Directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award-nominated director Jeff Calhoun, the production begins previews October 3, and opens October 11.
The new musical Elvis – A Musical Revolution will make it's North American premiere at the Walnut Street Theatre. Directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award-nominated director Jeff Calhoun, the production begins previews October 3, and opens October 11.
Photo Flash: Kimber Sprawl and Christopher Sutton Lead MEMPHIS, Opening Tonight at Walnut Street Theatre
Walnut Street Theatre concludes its landmark 206th season with Broadway's rockin' Tony Award-winning Best Musical, MEMPHIS. Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford, this exhilarating musical began previews on May 12th, opens tonight, May 20th and runs through July 12th on the WST Mainstage. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
Walnut Street Theatre concludes its landmark 206th season with Broadway's rockin' Tony Award-winning Best Musical, MEMPHIS. Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford, this exhilarating musical began previews on May 12th, opens tonight, May 20th and runs through July 12th on the WST Mainstage. BroadwayWorld has a look at the cast in action below!
Photo Flash: First Look at Kimber Sprawl and Christopher Sutton and More in MEMPHIS at Walnut Street Theatre
Walnut Street Theatre concludes its landmark 206th season with Broadway's rockin' Tony Award-winning Best Musical, MEMPHIS. Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford, this exhilarating musical began previews on May 12th, opens on May 20th and runs through July 12th on the WST Mainstage. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Walnut Street Theatre concludes its landmark 206th season with Broadway's rockin' Tony Award-winning Best Musical, MEMPHIS. Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford, this exhilarating musical began previews on May 12th, opens on May 20th and runs through July 12th on the WST Mainstage. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Riverside Theatre's MEMPHIS Begins Tonight
Riverside Theatre's celebrated 2014-2015 Season comes to a close with Memphis, the rollicking new musical that took Broadway by storm. Memphis performs on the Stark Stage from tonight, April 7 - 26, 2015.
Riverside Theatre's celebrated 2014-2015 Season comes to a close with Memphis, the rollicking new musical that took Broadway by storm. Memphis performs on the Stark Stage from tonight, April 7 - 26, 2015.
Riverside Theatre to Present MEMPHIS, 4/7-26
Riverside Theatre's celebrated 2014-2015 Season comes to a close with Memphis, the rollicking new musical that took Broadway by storm. Memphis performs on the Stark Stage from April 7 - 26, 2015 and is sponsored by Dick & Rosemary Haverland, John & Marilyn McConnell, Ray & Sonia McGowan, and Bobbie Olsen along with Riverside Theatre's Patron Producers. Memphis is produced in association with the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
Riverside Theatre's celebrated 2014-2015 Season comes to a close with Memphis, the rollicking new musical that took Broadway by storm. Memphis performs on the Stark Stage from April 7 - 26, 2015 and is sponsored by Dick & Rosemary Haverland, John & Marilyn McConnell, Ray & Sonia McGowan, and Bobbie Olsen along with Riverside Theatre's Patron Producers. Memphis is produced in association with the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
North Carolina Symphony to Tour Western North Carolina This Spring
Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony head west to Lexington, Mars Hill, Cherokee and Flat Rock, April 24-27, with "Beethoven and Beyond," a program focusing on great works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Liszt. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.
Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony head west to Lexington, Mars Hill, Cherokee and Flat Rock, April 24-27, with "Beethoven and Beyond," a program focusing on great works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Liszt. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.
BWW Reviews: THE COLOR PURPLE National Tour at TPAC's Andrew Jackson Hall
While critics and fans alike justifiably lament the paucity of female leads in Broadway musicals this season just past, you need look no further than the current tour of The Color Purple for a musical filled to overflowing with noteworthy women characters. The beautiful and moving reimagination of Alice Walker's extraordinary novel of faith, despair, horror, beauty, love and redemption, The Color Purple might best be described as a woman's story, but it is, in every possible way, a human story as universal and as affecting as any work of musical theater ever created.
While critics and fans alike justifiably lament the paucity of female leads in Broadway musicals this season just past, you need look no further than the current tour of The Color Purple for a musical filled to overflowing with noteworthy women characters. The beautiful and moving reimagination of Alice Walker's extraordinary novel of faith, despair, horror, beauty, love and redemption, The Color Purple might best be described as a woman's story, but it is, in every possible way, a human story as universal and as affecting as any work of musical theater ever created.
North Carolina Symphony Presents SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC, 4/28-5/3
'If music be the food of love,' wrote Shakespeare, 'play on.' The North Carolina Symphony takes that famous command to five communities across the state, and offers concertgoers a unique way to commemorate the Royal Wedding on April 29 to boot. The orchestra, led by Music Director Grant Llewellyn and joined on stage by a pair of local professional actors, presents a glimpse of 'Shakespeare in Music,' April 28 - May 3.
'If music be the food of love,' wrote Shakespeare, 'play on.' The North Carolina Symphony takes that famous command to five communities across the state, and offers concertgoers a unique way to commemorate the Royal Wedding on April 29 to boot. The orchestra, led by Music Director Grant Llewellyn and joined on stage by a pair of local professional actors, presents a glimpse of 'Shakespeare in Music,' April 28 - May 3.
North Carolina Symphony Presents SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC, 4/28-5/3
'If music be the food of love,' wrote Shakespeare, 'play on.' The North Carolina Symphony takes that famous command to five communities across the state, and offers concertgoers a unique way to commemorate the Royal Wedding on April 29 to boot. The orchestra, led by Music Director Grant Llewellyn and joined on stage by a pair of local professional actors, presents a glimpse of 'Shakespeare in Music,' April 28 - May 3.
'If music be the food of love,' wrote Shakespeare, 'play on.' The North Carolina Symphony takes that famous command to five communities across the state, and offers concertgoers a unique way to commemorate the Royal Wedding on April 29 to boot. The orchestra, led by Music Director Grant Llewellyn and joined on stage by a pair of local professional actors, presents a glimpse of 'Shakespeare in Music,' April 28 - May 3.
Broadway SD Presents THE COLOR PURPLE, 12/3-5
Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation is proud to announce that the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, will play at San Diego Civic Theatre for five performances only December 3 - 5, 2010.
Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation is proud to announce that the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, will play at San Diego Civic Theatre for five performances only December 3 - 5, 2010.
Broadway SD Presents THE COLOR PURPLE, 12/3-5
Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation is proud to announce that the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, will play at San Diego Civic Theatre for five performances only December 3 - 5, 2010.
Broadway/San Diego ~ A Nederlander Presentation is proud to announce that the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, will play at San Diego Civic Theatre for five performances only December 3 - 5, 2010.
The Color Purple Triumphs in Durham
The Color Purple made a triumphant return to the Durham Performing Arts Center this week. The musical, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Steven Spielberg film of the same name, is a massively popular, Tony-Award winning epic.
The Color Purple made a triumphant return to the Durham Performing Arts Center this week. The musical, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the Steven Spielberg film of the same name, is a massively popular, Tony-Award winning epic.
BWW Reviews: THE COLOR PURPLE at Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Led by the exquisitely voiced Dayna Jarae Dantzler in the pivotal role of Celie, we are taken on a journey of almost 40 years in the lives of Walker's richly drawn characters, to learn the true lessons of life and love. The story is as moving as it has ever been - Walker's novel relates the story of Celie's extraordinary life eloquently and articulately - but the creators of this musical (which earned a whopping 11 Tony Award nominations, winning the top honor for LaChanze's stirring performance as Celie) have re-fashioned the story to make it more palatable for theatre-goers, delivering a version of the story that is easier to follow, while retaining all the epic scope and dramatic possibilities of the original work. Neither is it slavish in its devotion to Stephen Spielberg's fine film version; The Color Purple, 'the musical about love,' obviously tells the same story, but in a different way, offering instead a re-intepretation of Walker's artfully created story set to music and told vividly onstage.
Led by the exquisitely voiced Dayna Jarae Dantzler in the pivotal role of Celie, we are taken on a journey of almost 40 years in the lives of Walker's richly drawn characters, to learn the true lessons of life and love. The story is as moving as it has ever been - Walker's novel relates the story of Celie's extraordinary life eloquently and articulately - but the creators of this musical (which earned a whopping 11 Tony Award nominations, winning the top honor for LaChanze's stirring performance as Celie) have re-fashioned the story to make it more palatable for theatre-goers, delivering a version of the story that is easier to follow, while retaining all the epic scope and dramatic possibilities of the original work. Neither is it slavish in its devotion to Stephen Spielberg's fine film version; The Color Purple, 'the musical about love,' obviously tells the same story, but in a different way, offering instead a re-intepretation of Walker's artfully created story set to music and told vividly onstage.
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Edward C. Smith has written 1 shows including Release (Playwright).
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