BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ AND WINNIE HOLZMAN BASED ON THE NOVEL BY GREGORY MAGUIRE After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2009, WICKED, Broadway’s biggest blockbuster will return to Nashville’s Tennessee Performing Arts Center, October 19 through November 6....

Glitz-tech Musical is Big on Show, but Short on Substance A disco ball reflecting a swirl of lights with loud ’70s music isn’t only the opening for the show, it’s the theme for the whole production, supervised by Jerry Mitchell and directed by Simon Phillips in a glitzy, bright...

John Leguizamo’s Autobiographical Journey to Find Meaning John Leguizamo shares his journey of battling forces that didn’t always work in his favor, and which he doesn’t always understand — a.k.a. life — in an autobiographical one-man show playing Broadway’s Lyceum...

Season Subscriptions Now On Sale Variety is what distinguishes the mix of styles and stories in the 2011-12 series of HCA/TriStar Broadway at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.  A unique mix of familiar titles, family favorites, and non-traditional shows with proven appeal to Broadway fans...

Broadway Debut Performance Highlights Arcadia Nothing – and everything – is certain in Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s smart, intelligent play mixing the past and present, both in the plot and physically with the present-day Broadway revival of the 1995 Tony award winner. As characters from 1809...

It’s CS Lewis and Christianity vs. Sigmund Freud and Atheism Freud’s Last Session Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater In an imagined meeting between atheist-turned-Christian CS Lewis and atheist Sigmund Freud, author of modern psychiatry, the questions of God and faith are tested and analyzed...

Experience “The First Lady of Song” in ELLA, the new musical at Nashville’s Tennessee Performing Arts Center March 1 through March 6, 2011 at the James K. Polk Theater. Set in 1966 in Nice, France ELLA opens with Miss Ella Fitzgerald scatting away while performing a sound check  in...

If you’re a fan of The Importance of Being Ernest, you’ll love the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of Oscar Wilde’s1895 farce about mistaken identity and absurd romance. If you’re not a fan, like me, you’ll leave the American Airlines Theatre saying, “Great...

This February, Nashville’s Studio Tenn Theatre Company concludes it’s inaugural season with Tennessee Williams’ classic play The Glass Menagerie. Williams’ enduring classic is an award-winning portrayal of a disintegrating family during the depression of the 1930′s...

An Abbreviated and Clever History of the World Ancient looking steps lead to a modern video screen as past meets present and we find that one really isn’t all that different from the other in Saturday Night Live comedian Colin Quinn’s Broadway stand-up Long Story Short. Long Story...

This Version Gets Steered on a Disappointing Detour I always weep with emotion at Driving Miss Daisy, whether I’m reading Alfred Uhry’s wonderful Pultizer-Prize winning play, viewing the movie version (Urhy won the Oscar for his screenplay) or watching it on stage, but after attending the...

Multi award-winning Bill Cosby returns to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on Saturday, January 15, for two performances, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. One of America’s most prolific comedians of all time, Bill Cosby has dazzled generations of fans with his comedy routines, best-selling books...