The To-Do List: Heart works and other art works, plus a Mardi Gras Ball
This week, Broad Avenue cures your sweet tooth, Blue Suede Vintage reopens in a new spot and Lunar New Year celebrations continue at the Agricenter.
Alys Drake
Alys Drake is a Memphian born and raised in the Bluff City. A theater-lover, she has worked in a variety of marketing and communications roles at entities within the advertising, legal, marketing, religious and financial services sectors. She is a graduate of Memphis Central High School and Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
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February 2025
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Performing Arts The theater where it happens: ‘Hamilton’ returns to Memphis
Small-town politics, founding fathers and a mystery memory loss are the topics of shows opening in Memphis in February.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Secret comedy and passionate music
This week, the Crosstown Arts film series comes back with a love story, ‘Hamilton’ is back at the Orpheum and the Tennessee Equality Project brings its gumbo contest back for the 12th year.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Mardi Gras, griots, pirates and the faces of David Bowie
This week, clothing and pottery pop up next to Hard Times Deli, a new sculpture celebrates caregivers and the Dixon’s director talks about cat paintings.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Mardi Gras for dogs, zydeco for people and a monster movie
This week WYXR wants folks to pull up, author Jared Sullivan talks TVA and the Metal Museum opens an airy exhibition.
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Performing Arts New Theatre Memphis season includes ‘Legally Blonde’ musical, ‘Shawshank Redemption’
The 2025-26 season includes well-known musicals, family favorites and a classic Shakespearean tragedy.
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March 2025
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Performing ArtsA beauty, a beast, Blondie, Benatar and 12 angry jurors
Here’s what’s showing in Memphis theaters this March, including one show that the director describes as “incredibly weird.”
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Performing ArtsMemphis’ 2025 theater awards in doubt due to outstanding debt
Memphis' annual Ostrander Awards may not be held this summer as the organization struggles to find funding.
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Performing ArtsPlayhouse 2025-26 season includes ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ more
Seven musicals will be presented, including a regional premiere of “Come From Away,” the Tony Award-winning musical.
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Performing ArtsGermantown Community Theatre new season includes ‘Nunsense,’ ‘Annie Jr.’
The eight productions in Germantown Community Theatre’s latest season include musicals, comedies, plays, a youth production, and the winner of the organization’s emerging playwright contest.
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MusicWomen in the Arts speakers have a word of advice: Stay ready
Being prepared was the theme of the day at the Women in the Arts event, which was held Saturday at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, and at Theatre Memphis.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: How to celebrate St. Pat’s Day, plus daffodils and drag
This week, the owls are not what they seem at Crosstown Arts, “Whose Line is it Anyway?” hits the road and the Orpheum reveals its next Broadway lineup.
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MusicOrpheum brings Broadway smash-hit musical to Memphis for new season
The Orpheum announced a new Broadway season, including a new musical that flips the script on Shakespeare’s tragic “Romeo & Juliet,” asking — what if Juliet didn’t die?
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Women spin, blossoms bloom and nerds unite
This week, punk rock changes a teen girl’s life at Circuit, Black-owned food trucks take over Tiger Lane and you’ve got one more chance to go back to Comeback Coffee.
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April 2025
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Performing Arts‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘Saint Joan’ among April theater openings
A Broadway version of classic Marilyn Monroe film — with plenty of tap-dancing — is one of several shows opening in Memphis theaters in April.
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The To-Do List The To-Do List: Hot Foot Honeys, drag time travel and a bad tattoo contest
This week, Martin Luther King Jr. is honored, a fashion legend is celebrated and a mid-century home transforms into a vintage pop-up shop.
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