Photo Coverage: MIDWINTER'S FIRST NIGHT 2017
A capacity crowd filled The Keeton to witness the no-holds-barred evening, hosted by Julia Marie Nettles, Jenna Pryor, Austin Jeffrey Smith and Taylor Tracey. Arron Holman worked the crowd during the evening to provide insight for the coming theatrical season in Nashville.
EVITA, GOOD MONSTERS Claim Top Honors at Midwinter's First Night
Studio Tenn and Tennessee Performing Arts Center's joint venture to produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita in Nashville resulted in the production claiming the top prize as "Outstanding Musical of The Year" at Sunday's Midwinter's First Night event at The Larry Keeton Theatre. Nashville Repertory Theatre's production of Nate Eppler's original play Good Monsters took the title of "Outstanding Play of The Year" in the annual ceremony that dates back to its origins in 1989.
CRITICS CHOICE: We Could Make Believe
Halloween's all done in, there are still three weeks ahead before we officially give thanks, and Christmas - and all its accompanying frenzy and frivolity - is about seven weeks away! So what's there to do for all the theatrical types jonesing for a trip to make believe? Plenty! Theater companies all over middle Tennessee are showing off their best and brightest, with a number of eagerly anticipated shows opening this weekend and/or continuing from their earlier opening nights and next Tuesday there's a sparkling new Broadway musical swinging through Music City to entertain you…
CRITIC'S CHOICE: Scaring Up Theatrical Fun for Halloween
It's Halloween weekend and every dramatic personage and theatrical type we've ever encountered is caught up in the annual rush to find just the right costume for their holiday revelries (we confess we've never had the knack for coming up with Halloween get-ups - not since we went in drag to a party at the First Baptist Church as the age of 12…tongues were wagging, we are certain, but we lived to tell about it, so it couldn't have been that bad). In the meantime, there are all sorts of onstage happenings this weekend to keep you otherwise engaged should the difficulty of selecting your costume prove to be too much.
Nashville Theatre Students' Initiative to Host First NYC Showcase
Four Nashville, Tennessee college students have decided to take a leap of faith towards their futures and have begun preparing for a self-produced New York City industry showcase on March 17, 2016. Emily Marie Hughes, Jonah M. Jackson, Dallas James Pritt, and Sarah Katherine Zanotti, are all BFA Musical Theatre and Acting majors, and have formed a student organization and project known as the Nashville Theatre Students' Initiative. The idea came from Pritt who originally attended college in Chicago, Illinois and saw upperclassman creating a showcase, due to that school not providing the opportunity.
Photo Coverage: Midwinter's First Night 1/6/13
The world premiere of a brand-spanking new musical with Broadway in its sights, a relatively young but awe-inspiring theater company and a sparkling, witty new play about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald led the list of Tennessee's outstanding theatrical achievements in 2012 that was revealed Sunday night at Midwinter's First Night. Photographer Rick Malkin was on hand to capture the evening's highlights with his camera.