Cheekwood Estate and Gardens has been facing what it terms an “existential threat” in the form of legal action trying to reduce traffic for its neighbors in the wealthy Belle Meade Highlands area, but the cultural institution notched a small win in that ongoing tussle yesterday before Nashville’s Board of Zoning Appeals.
Philanthropist and businesswoman Martha Ingram dies at age 90
Nashville businesswoman, philanthropist and arts advocate Martha Rivers Ingram has died at age 90. The Charleston native became CEO of her husband’s collection of businesses, Ingram Industries, after his death.
Western Kentucky’s Cinema Systers celebrates a decade as U.S.’s only all-lesbian film festival
The only all-lesbian film festival in the U.S. is not where most people might expect. Cinema Systers – a four-day celebration of sapphic storytelling – turned 10 in Paducah over Memorial Day weekend.
‘Annie’ brings sunshine and the return of a hometown actress to TPAC
The story of orphan Annie has captured hearts for generations, and the version at TPAC through Saturday is a homecoming of sorts for one of the featured actors: Julia Nicole Hunter, who plays Grace Farrell.
One year after TN’s drag ban, rural actors tell the story of a trans woman who survived Nazi Germany
The play “I Am My Own Wife” comes to Nashville’s Darkhorse Theatre on March 15 and 16.
‘Mrs. Krishnan’s Party’ immerses audiences in the stage play — and cooking a meal to eat later
Immersive theater directly engages the audience with the performers, the set and the story. Add to that the ingredients of preparing and cooking a celebratory meal as part of the play and you have the premise of “Mrs. Krishnan’s Party,” which runs this week at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
As you like it: Improvised Shakespeare comes to TPAC this weekend
Friends, Nashvillians, countrymen, lend me your ears: The Improvised Shakespeare Company will be at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for two performances on Nov. 10 and 11. It’s improvised theater — unscripted, unpredictable and funny — using the language and rhymes of Shakespeare.
Preserving Tennessee’s traditional arts
Broom makers, shoe cobblers, and luthiers — along with gospel singers, Kurdish musicians and square dance callers — all have taken part in Tennessee’s apprenticeship program to preserve traditional folk art forms.
Nashville Youth Theater Troupe Confronts A Year Behind Screens In ‘Selfie The Musical’
An original play about what it’s like to be a kid online is being performed in Nashville through Aug. 1. The director of the Theater Bug troupe says this show felt timely, because the pandemic made a generation who grew up online even more reliant on it.
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