Dramatic developments took place at Playhouse on the Square today with hundreds of actors demanding to be heard. >And they were — loud and clear, since it was the kickoff of the four-day Unified Professional Theatre Auditions, a national job ...

Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet are the genial musicians who constitute Trout Fishing in America, a duo that keep it simple, smart and hugely entertaining. For some 35 years, Trout Fishing in America has been charming kids and adults with ...

Thomas Miles, the actor, comedian and emcee best known as "The Steve Harvey Morning Show" co-host Nephew Tommy, continues his stand at Harrah's Casino Tunica's Funny Bone comedy club with shows tonight and Saturday.

A new, three-day festival this summer will celebrate women’s contributions to the performing arts. The inaugural Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis is now accepting submissions of plays, musicals, operas and other works that may be featured at the event on ...

"Locomotion": Award-winning novelist Jacqueline Woodson has turned her book into an inspiring play about an 11-year-old boy whose life moves from tragedy to hope as he loses one family and gains a new one. Tuesday at 6 p.m. $15-$20 ($9 ...

Though playwright Katori Hall may be better known to theatergoers on Broadway and London’s West End, the native Memphian will finally see her name on a hometown marquee next year. Her award-winning play, “The Mountaintop,” will be staged as a ...

In Oscar Wilde's timeless comedy of manners, "The Importance of Being Earnest," two friends find out that each other is leading a secret life in order to escape his domestic obligations. When they both fall in love with women in ...

"The Boys Next Door" concerns four mentally challenged men, living in a communal apartment, who are looked after by their caseworker. These men of varying levels of function form a family of a sorts as they work through the often-hilarious ...

When Ned Canty steps onto the set of Johann Strauss Jr.'s comic operetta "Die Fledermaus," he looks disproportionately small and way overdressed. Four Romantic-era paintings of buxom nude women -- each about 15 feet tall -- tower over him like ...

This weekend's Masterworks program by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra focuses heavily on Russia with works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

"M.A.R.K." ("Memphis Artists Remember King"): Bluff City Tri Art Theatre, a woman-centered theatre, presents its annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. The talents of a diverse group of artists will grace the stage with performances that focus ...

Stilian Kirov, associate conductor for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, has been named assistant conductor for the Seattle Symphony.

"The Club": By Eve Merriam; with songs from 1894-1905 arranged by Alexandra Ivanoff. A group of gentlemen gathers at an upper-class men's club to drink, smoke, plan the spring follies ... but these gentlemen may not be all that they ...

Saturday night's IRIS concert programming takes an optimistic, New Year's view of the future. Michael Stern, artistic director and principal conductor, says the program, with guest soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, will fill the Germantown Performing Arts Center with gorgeous musicality ...

Popular singer Joyce Cobb is taking on the role of jazz legend Billie Holiday for Hattiloo Theatre's production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill." It's the second time around in the role for the locally celebrated singer, who ...