Robert Penn Warren interrupted his interview over coffee with Peggy Burch to bounce some novel ideas off her. A senile grand marshal taught Wayne Risher an unforgettable lesson about journalism ethics. And there’s more.
Among Iris Orchestra’s latest class of artist fellows is a native Memphian, a first for the young program.
Darius Wallace has performed as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Frederick Douglass in schools, universities, theaters and museums around the country. “He’s one of the foremost recreators of these three men that we have in the country,” says Tennessee Shakespeare Company's artistic director.
Children who go on to become successful adults are more likely to have had some arts education enrich their experiences on that path. Studies show the correlation between arts education, academic achievement and compassion for others.
"Arts matter, dance matters," Ballet Memphis CEO Gretchen Wollert McLennon says. "Arts are a respite and a celebration. They change lives, they employ people."
After eight years on Broad Avenue, Collage Dance Collective is relocating to a 22,000-square-foot location on Tillman. This is part of the nonprofit’s vision to grow into the largest Black-owned ballet company in the South.
Mark Greaney has written nine thrillers about his legendary assassin Court Gentry, aka 'The Gray Man.' Netflix cast Ryan Gosling in the film role.
“Classical Creativity in Isolation” will open the professional theater company’s 13th season. “I don’t care for live theaters being classified as ‘non-essential’ this year,” says TSC founder Dan McCleary.
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.
Some of the Memphis figures buried at Elmwood Cemetery star in a film by Willy Bearden that will be streamed Oct. 10. Bearden's documentary includes a key role for himself as a former mayor of 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.
Bertram Williams Jr. landed a role on Starz drama "P-Valley" while working as a high school teacher in Memphis. He says the show, based on a fictional Mid-South strip club, tackles taboos that audiences should address head-on.
The arts company announced Gretchen Wollert McLennon as the organization’s new leader after a unanimous vote by board members. She will begin her tenure Aug. 1.
Harold Foxx was the first deaf comedian at the Laugh Factory and attended the comedy institution The Groundlings Theatre & School. In his shows, he says, “It’s a deaf man, calling it like it is.”
The show, which debuted in September 2019, had a 10-episode season.
Memphis-bred stunt performer and actress Carrie Bernans joins the cast of Fox's game of "Ultimate Tag," a professional take on the playground pastime.
A full house at Playhouse may look different than it did in the days prior to COVID-19. Executive producer Michael Detroit said a 'working plan' might be to sell every other seat.
Like a “Memphis music milkman,” artist Graham Winchester makes personal deliveries of his new vinyl single, while Opera Memphis vocalists take requests for outdoor neighborhood performances.
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.
Collage Dance Collective's new facility on the intersection of Sam Cooper Boulevard and Tillman Street will be 10 times the size of its current location on Broad Avenue.
The annual literary salon – a blend of cocktail party, theater and book club – puts Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Dan McCleary in the role of mixologist. This year’s authors are Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mitchell.
From mosaics to music, the affordable Creative Aging Mid-South’s arts courses encourage social engagement through educational and artistic ventures.
The last battle of the Korean War, the woman behind Winston Churchill and a Jewish family who survived the Holocaust will form the narrative thread for a lunch next month.
The Orpheum's vice president and COO Dacquiri Baptiste spent 19 years with the renowned dance company before moving to Memphis in June 2019.