Technology Creates Ghostly Effects, but Goes a Little Too Extra on the Sensory   Ghost Lunt-Fontaine Theatre A hit movie that starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and won an Oscar for Whoopi Goldberg is the latest story to transfer from the big screen to the little stage — only Ghost does it big. Suspend your belief, the slogan urges us to do (like the characters in the story) and we can believe that a 20-year-old blockbuster movie can have an afterlife on Broadway. And it does. After a hit run in London’s West End. With unmemorable music and sometimes weak lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard (Grammy-winning Pop music...

Norm, You is My Porgy Now Consider that headline a love letter to Norm Lewis, who brings to life the character of Porgy in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, getting a revised and slimmed-down production on Broadway directed by Diane Paulus. Lewis brings such warmth, strength and humanity to Porgy, that his performance alone is reason to see the production which found itself embroiled in controversy before it even hit the Great White Way (Composer Stephen Sondheim wrote in the New York Times criticizing changes to the original version featuring music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, who...

The Tony Award Winning Musical is Now Playing at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Seeing Memphis, the musical – with music from Bon Jovi’s David Bryan - is like taking a stroll down Beale Street and listening to rhythm and heart of the city coming through in the music. The show starts off with the high energy song Underground that introduces you to Felicia Ferrell and her older brother DelRay, played by Felicia Boswell and Quentin Earl Darrington. DelRay is extremely protective of Felicia and is pushing her to make it in a music industry that does not look kindly on her color. One night while Felicia was singing in DelRay’s...

Smyrna-based Lamplighter’s Theatre Company is quickly becoming one of the premier community theatres in Middle Tennessee. Though only a few years old, Lamplighter’s has developed a large and loyal fan base by producing popular Broadway musicals like Annie, The Sound of Music, Guys & Dolls and Man of LaMancha in addition to well-known and loved classics such as Steel Magnolias, The Crucible, A Christmas Carol, 12 Angry Men and The Mousetrap. But this gutsy, upstart doesn’t shy away from producing new works, such as their hugely popular production of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, adapted by local playwright, Paula K. Parker....