Nashville Theater Mourns the Passing of Iconic Actor DAVID COMPTON
David Compton – one of the region's most accomplished and acclaimed and most beloved actors and directors – died early Wednesday morning, May 4, after a four-year battle with heart disease and cancer. He leaves his wife, Amanda Card Compton (whom he married on Tuesday, May 3, just hours before his death); his mother, Jo Compton of Badin, North Carolina; his sister Becky Compton Taylor; his brother Jim Compton; and countless other friends and family who are mourning his passing.
HOW DO YOU GRAB A NAKED LADY? Shares Daughter's Story of Mania and Sexcapades
A mother is supposed to be the role model- the one bailing their child out of ridiculous situations, offering words of wisdom and leading by example. She shouldn't be the one parading around naked in public, cursing out store employees, getting arrested, being committed and then taught by her daughter how to chop carrots upon her return from the mental hospital.
BWW Reviews: ARCADIA from Blackbird Theater Company
Feasting on the banquet that is the musical, magical prose of Tom Stoppard, the cast of Blackbird Theater Company's Arcadia delivers a pitch-perfect rendering of his intellectually stimulating play, under the fine direction of Ted Swindley. Certain to provoke thought and elicit a variety of responses, Arcadia is intricately crafted and imaginatively plotted, staged elegantly and confidently by the relatively new theater company in just its second production at David Lipscomb University's Shamblin Theatre.
