Playhouse on the Square will end its internship program in favor of more full-time staff and better compensation for contractors through its new Associate Theatre Company.

The Memphis Black Arts Alliance is celebrating four decades with an award show honoring Memphians with impact on local, national or global artistry.

The Memphis Japan Festival, presented through a collaboration between the garden and the Japan-America Society of Tennessee, showcases all things Japanese.

This week offers Halloween happenings galore; plus, the Buckman Arts Center turns 25 and Rick Springfield plays Graceland on “General Hospital” fan weekend.

“Every voice matters,” said the vice president of education and communication for the Orpheum Theatre Group and a longtime volunteer with SAY. 

New Moon Theatre Co. is staging a spoof of the “Evil Dead” movie, just in time for Halloween. But you might want to avoid the splash zone.

This week, metalsmiths repair your broken stuff, brewers descend on Cooper-Young and Chicago comes to Memphis.

The European style circus, featuring performers from around the world, transported the audience with one amazing feat after another. But those who expected lions or elephants may have been disappointed.

“We believe Shakespeare and his stories are for everyone, and so we seek to bring his stories to everyone in our community.”

This week, the Fogelman Galleries feature a frankd robinson retrospective, Mempho returns with Widespread Panic and metal meets mariachi at the Halloran Centre.

For the second year, the organization is hosting an afternoon of free dance performances, musical acts, Memphis food trucks and dance-oriented vendors. 

Arthur Flowers — the native South Memphian, novelist, Syracuse professor emeritus, and self-proclaimed High Hoodoo of Memphis — is coming home this week to perform at the Stax Museum.

For two shows, Pete Pranica will transform into Mark Twain. Call him Big Twain, maybe? It’s all for the benefit of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company. And it’s just the latest evidence that Pranica is a great Memphian. 

Giordano Dance Chicago has been touring for 60 years and is known as America’s original jazz dance company. But this month’s performances represent the first time the Orpheum Theatre Group will host the dancers. 

“We are wanting to tell more stories about Memphis and who we are. It’s just so important that we humanize everyone,” said the director of a new production from Playhouse on the Square. 

Bolton was scheduled to perform at the Halloran Centre Saturday, Sept. 3, alongside Charisse and Courtney Little. A spokesperson for the theater group said the promoter hosting the event notified them Monday, Aug. 29, that Bolton’s performance has been canceled.

Reggae at The Shed brings island sounds, along with food, drinks and local vendors to the Carolina Watershed, 141 E Carolina Ave. 

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

Perhaps few are as well-suited to be the head of Soulsville as Pat Mitchell Worley, co-host of “Beale Street Caravan,” former communications director of the Memphis Music Foundation, one-time hard rock DJ and protégé of Deanie Parker. 

This update by playwright Aaron Sorkin is, by some measures, the most successful American play in Broadway history and the very rare stage play — as opposed to stage musical — to be a major commercial hit. 

A grant nearing $1.4 million will help Germantown Performing Arts Center cover costs the city traditionally paid through 2024.

In partnership with the Community Redevelopment Agency, Hattiloo will renovate a church building with a storied Civil War-era history. 

Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thornton in this year’s movie about Elvis Presley, was found dead Thursday at her home in Nashville.

The Pric3lessTwinz will appear on the season’s finale episode, airing 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 19.

The musical takes the audience on a journey through Nomax, who is penniless and has just been dumped by his girlfriend Lorraine. While Nomax listens to the radio one morning, five guys named “Moe” emerge from it.