Opera Memphis brings true crime, ‘LaZer Divas’ and ‘Sweeney Todd’
A new season of Opera Memphis starts at libraries, farmers markets and festivals.
Elle Perry
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August 2025
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Visual ArtsArts Beat: New Overton Park Shell project is a walk of art
When going to the Overton Park Shell, you’re gonna want to take the scenic route.
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Visual Arts Brooks curators want Memphis to be nationally known for Black art
In her newly permanent role, Adeze Wilford comes to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to help provide opportunities to people who frequently feel left out.
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Music Southaven’s KIRBY plays tribute to Mississippi in new album
The album is a “familial” record, KIRBY says, based on her “Mississippi Black American experience.”
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The To-Do List Darius Rucker’s at the Garden, and there’s a horror circus at the mall
On The To-Do List this week: The Ostrander’s show must go on, Kelly English serves an art-inspired menu and the Stax Music Academy opens the fall Shell series with a summer-themed show.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Learning the art of business at teen craft market
The Memphis Youth Art Mart returns, and this year, 17-year-old co-organizer Baylus Schaffler says it’s tapping into a new form of art.
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The To-Do List The Orpheum is alive with the ‘Sound of Music,’ and Labubus hit the runway
On The To-Do List this week are the Memphis Chicken and Beer Fest and an Unapologetic anniversary. Plus, Like Really Creative is doing, like, a lot this week.
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Performing Arts Hattiloo will bring ‘Jubilee’ to Jackson, Tennessee
After its run is completed in Memphis, a Hattiloo production will travel 85 miles northeast.
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Arts & CultureArts Beat: A party that invites Memphians to be ‘unapologetically themselves’
“I want everybody to come through dressed as if they’re the artists. It’s a festival ... a block party.”
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Music Memphis Listening Lab taps Central Station music curator as director
With Chad Weekley’s new Listening Lab role comes the opportunity for collaboration, where someone in town to play Central Station could do a Q&A or workshops at the Listening Lab.
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Performing Arts Puppet theater to take the stage at local parks
“I love the fact that we’re giving another opportunity for kids to not only see something different. Because it’s different from television. It’s different from their cellphones. It’s different from all these technology-based entertainment.”
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The To-Do ListBook fair and recess for adults, speed dating for artists and a luau for dogs
This week, Elvis Week begins and a Jeff Buckley documentary screens.
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MusicArts Beat: GloRilla takes charge, with a festival of her own making
Memphian Gloria Woods’ “Glo Bash” is set for Friday, July 25, at FedExForum. The event lets the three-time Grammy Award nominee and multi-platinum artist set her own agenda.
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Visual Arts Figure drawing at the Dixon features costumed performers
In May, attendees of the Stage & Sketch figure-drawing class drew wrestlers as graphic designer and illustrator Shelda Edwards called out poses.
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: ‘Cosmic Produce’ a homecoming for Kansas-based artist
Overton High grad Sean Nash’s show at Tops Gallery at Madison Avenue Park in Downtown Memphis has origins in the Kansas City International Airport.
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Music From K. Michelle to Teddy Swims, August’s must-see concerts in Memphis
Concert opportunities abound in August, so much so that the must-see concerts story this month includes the usual five concerts, as well as two festivals worth your time.
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Music Live at the Garden names replacement for Steve Miller Band
The group, which was founded in the 1950s, had its first hit with 1959’s “Shout.”
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Music Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and more coming to Memphis stages in June
Third Eye Blind, Ashanti, Ja Rule and other artists are also scheduled to perform. Here’s a roundup of concerts coming to the Memphis area in June.
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July 2025
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MusicMemphis rapper stars in new ads for Checkers, Adidas
Days after her sold-out Glo Bash at FedExForum, national and international brands are spotlighting the Memphis native.
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The To-Do List Unleash your inner Sandra Dee, jam to Jerry Garcia tunes, party with Skinny
This week, support kidpreneurs in Germantown, learn to homestead in Millington and get broken stuff fixed at the Central Library.
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Visual Arts Gender, erasure and ‘pink lives': August art exhibitions explore social issues, connection
One artist uses performance, mixed media, collage, and video “to converse with other young, alienated women and femmes who struggle to find their entire selves in a capitalistic landscape.”
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The To-Do List Party in an Uptown alley, art-crawl in the Edge and dance at a coffee shop
This week, GloRilla’s show goes on despite her arrest, the Last Vegan on Earth is in Crosstown and the “Most Epic Lemonade Stand in Memphis History” is in Collierville.
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Visual ArtsArts Beat: What is a docent and why does the Brooks Museum need more of them?
“It’s really surprising how many kids have never been to a museum before,” said docent Anne Whirley. “But they’re all engaged and well-behaved.”
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The To-Do List Asian Night Market is back, and Wilco’s Pat Sansone pops up
This week, learn what happens if you fall inside a black hole, watch a summer cult classic and ease on down the road to see “The Wiz.”
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The Arts BeatArts Beat: Stax honors Chicago soul DJ with new digital archive
Bob Abrahamian’s collecting journey began with him wanting to learn about soul samples of hip-hop records.
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