“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.
Dorothy Gunther Pugh left her role as artistic director of the ballet company in May 2019 and will depart the CEO job in June. She founded the organization in 1986.
Memphis native Mark Chambers has returned to Memphis for a run of the one-man play "Tru," about writer Truman Capote. "Tru" is presented by Cloud9Memphis, a local theater company telling the stories of those 55-and-up.
This Charlie Vergos doesn’t cook ribs for a living, but the stand-up comedian might tickle your funny bone with his high/low humor.
New Ballet' "Nut Remix" resets the story of the "Nutcracker" ballet on Beale Street, and mixes in a little Booker T. & the MG's and Duke Ellington with the familiar Tchaikovsky music. This year's performances are Nov. 15-17 at the Cannon Center.
“If there had been a Camp SAY in the ‘60s, that would have been a lifesaver for me,” says Vince Vawter, novelist and fluency advocate.
Collage Dance Collective kicks off its 10th anniversary season this fall, and those in the company hope to accomplish even more in the years to come.
The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers Sept. 26-Oct. 2.
In the mid-1970s it was the final hit record of a Memphis soul empire. In 2019, it's an adored meme. But for Shirley Brown, "Woman to Woman" was the song that changed her life.