There are 20 article(s) tagged Theatre Memphis:

• September 2023

  • The To-Do List: Ballet, balloons, brews and Tabitha Brown

    This week, Mempho brings Americana star Jason Isbell, Al Kapone plays a free show at the Shell and the Cooper-Young Festival is back.

    By Bianca Phillips, Kelsey Bowen, Elle Perry, Chris Herrington September 14, 2023

• June 2023

  • A soaring success: ‘Mary Poppins’ dazzles at Theatre Memphis

    “Theatre Memphis is so proud to be able to bring top-notch production values to match the top-notch Memphis talent who make this production so special for all ages,” said Debbie Litch, Theatre Memphis executive director.

    By Žak Ozmo June 29, 2023

• April 2023

  • The To-Do List: Bouncy houses, books, ballet and Ms. Jackson (if you’re nasty)

    This week, the Tennessee Triennial highlights Memphis artists, jookers battle in the Ravine and MEMFix returns with a festival in Alcy-Ball.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry, Kelsey Bowen April 27, 2023

• March 2023

  • Theatre Memphis, Dixon unite for Women in the Arts

    The two East Memphis entities joined forces to commemorate not only Women’s History Month but specifically women in the arts. 

    By Alicia Davidson March 06, 2023

  • The To-Do List: Alvin Ailey, Black country music and lot of Elvises

    This week, the Dixon and Theatre Memphis celebrate women in the arts, Step Afrika steps into GPAC and there’s a chili showdown at Memphis Made.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Chris Herrington, Blair Kinsey March 02, 2023

• February 2023

  • Sondheim Tribute Revue conveys importance of just showing up

    “The main message was clear: it is important to simply show up, whether in love or in life. This was a refreshing, transformative expression of the human experience.”

    By Žak Ozmo February 17, 2023

• January 2023

  • The To-Do List: Beer for wizards, Sondheim’s greatest hits and MLK Day events

    This week, a TheatreWorks play centers on Chicago’s Pekin Theater, the Mid-South’s wilderness is on display at the Dixon and the 1980s are back at Minglewood.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry January 12, 2023

• August 2022

  • Ostrander Awards returns to celebrate best in Memphis theater

    The awards ceremony returns Sunday, Aug. 28, following a two-year pause due to the pandemic.

    By Alicia Davidson August 27, 2022

• June 2022

  • The To-Do List: Rainbows and zombies on Beale, plus music on the river

    This week, Theatre Memphis closes out its season with “Ragtime,” High Cotton Brewing hosts a beer mile and a Memphis native author celebrates her book release with a skate party. 

    By Chris Herrington, Elle Perry, Bianca Phillips June 02, 2022

• March 2022

  • The To-Do List: Farmers markets, ‘Remembering MLK’ and a party in the park

    This week, Opera Memphis kicks off 30 Days of Opera, animatronic dinos stomp into the Renasant Convention Center and an art show at Tone explores gender and gender variation.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry March 31, 2022

  • The To-Do List: Belated Mardi Gras, Broad’s First Fridays and Sidney Poitier on the big screen

    This week, “La Cages aux Folles” opens at Theatre Memphis, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown reads at the University of Memphis, Railgarten hosts a belated Mardi Gras party and Broad Avenue’s First Fridays are back with “March Madness.”

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington March 03, 2022

• January 2022

  • The To-Do List: ‘Our Town,’ ‘The Mountaintop’ and ‘Mirror’

    This week’s picks are heavy on theater and film, but we’re also celebrating Dolly Parton, Betty White and Mark Twain. Plus, now’s the right time for a tell-all. 

    By Elle Perry, Chris Herrington January 20, 2022

• April 2021

  • Opinion: Theatre Memphis’ leading lady, a force in high heels and sequins

    When she took over as executive producer, Theatre Memphis was full of debt with no endowment. Now the theater is in the black, full of hope, with an endowment, and a major capital campaign nearing completion.

    By Dan Conaway April 30, 2021

• December 2020

  • Theaters deliver ‘A Christmas Carol’ and holiday shows to your living room

    We’re not just going to be home for the holidays, but also homebound by COVID-19. Still you’ll be able to see “A Christmas Carol” performed by Memphis actors and other seasonal shows.

    By Peggy Burch December 03, 2020

• August 2020

  • Stages are dark, but performance theaters are plotting their returns

    Live theater companies in Memphis endured a long exercise in improv in the second half of the 2019-20 theater season. And 2020-21 is shaping up as more of the same.

    By Peggy Burch August 27, 2020

  • Jerry Chipman’s stage was Memphis

    From 1971 until his retirement in 2012, Chipman served over St. Jude’s communications and marketing sector, while also maintaining a presence first on stage, and later in television and film.

    By Jared Boyd August 05, 2020

• April 2020

  • Nelson: ‘Enemy of the People’ tells us what we need to know about this pandemic

    “An Enemy of the People” has been a theater staple for more than a century, but the play has never been more timely. A 2018 production in China was suppressed by the government because audiences were cheering the doctor who is the play's protagonist.

    By Michael Nelson April 21, 2020

• March 2020

  • Celebrating 100 years, Theatre Memphis gets a facelift, a land deed and a national award

    TM executive producer Debbie Litch has a hardhat in every color and goals for every week to bring the $5.7 million campaign of improvements to completion by August.

    By Jill Johnson Piper March 06, 2020

• July 2019

  • Nelson: ‘Hamilton’ moved on, but Memphis’ theater scene still dazzles

    Memphis theaters have reasonable prices, easy access and, above all, superb talent. When you see a play at one of these venues, you are seeing the theatrical equivalent of the Memphis Grizzlies. Not a team playing in the NBA finals. But definitely major league.

    By Michael Nelson July 30, 2019

• May 2019

  • Extensive renovations planned at Theatre Memphis

    As it approaches its 100th anniversary, Theatre Memphis' facility on Perkins Extended will be getting upgraded. 

    By Natalie Pilgrim May 20, 2019