Adolescence and old age can be challenging periods in life. So, imagine experiencing both at the same time. That’s the story of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the Tony award-winning musical at Tennessee Performing Arts Center through Sunday, April 11.
NashVillager Podcast: March 29, 2024
Can the people who fuel Nashville’s signature industry really afford to live here?
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.
Metro Arts funding delays, debates over equity leave some Nashville arts organizations struggling
This week, artists and arts organizations throughout Nashville finished the annual application process to receive city funding from the Metro Arts Commission. But the arts community is still dealing with the consequences of last year’s chaotic funding cycle.
50 Nashville actors with disabilities will star in Backlight Productions’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’
On a Monday afternoon inside Backlight Productions in Brentwood, everyone is abuzz.
Talking life, theater and the sacrifices artists make for creation
Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with a fellow Middle Tennessean. In honor of the performing arts theme for this Friday’s episode, native Tennessean Drew Ogles with the Nashville Repertory Theater picked me up at the NPR headquarters, and we […]
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.
New Musical Explores The Era Of The ‘Jew Store’ In Rural Tennessee
Listen In 1920, a Jewish family moved from New York to Union City, Tennessee. It was a novel enough occurrence that, nearly a century later, their story has been adapted into a musical, called “Jew Store,” which is coming through Nashville this weekend. And while the name may sound provocative, it also illuminates an often forgotten […]
TPAC Bets On A Musical Of Songs From 1970s Soft Rocker Dan Fogelberg
Listen Theatergoers who walked out of the Broadway hit Mamma Mia! singing Abba songs may be in for another good time. In the same way that show cleverly used familiar old songs to tell an original story, a new musical does the same, using well known songs of the late Dan Fogelberg.
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