On stage

There’s more than one way to stage a hugely popular musical. Sure, Broadway may provide a convenient blueprint. But regional theater audiences should expect more than cheap imitation. They should want a show that is more personal. Or “local,” if ...

It’s tempting to say that the Memphis Repertory Orchestra, with its free concerts, offers the best classical music value around town. But the Eroica Ensemble also offers terrific performances gratis, which prevents either organization making the claim.

A dusky sliver of moon and the beaming planet Jupiter hovered over the shoulders of Ballet Memphis dancers as they bounded across the Peabody hotel rooftop Saturday night. Celestial objects made a fitting backdrop for “Taking Flight,” a three-act concert ...

On a recent lamentable weekend, I spent three days wallowing in mud while getting soaked to the bone and frozen by arctic winds just to hear a lot of unfamiliar music played far too loudly and with very little sense ...

Beethoven was rolling over and over Saturday night.

Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” wheezes onto the Lohrey Stage at Theatre Memphis, bringing with it all the playwright’s pedestrian sentimentality that captures, as Dorothy Parker might say, the range of humanity from A to B.

Concerts International ended its 41st season with the first-rate Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Piano Trio’s masterful performance of a variety of works.

To understand the rage of Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s classic novel “Native Son,” one first has to understand his environment.

The remarkable program of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra this weekend might be called the MSO’s feel-good event of the season.

HAVANA (AP) — Visitors to the elite feeder school for Cuba's renowned National Ballet might be forgiven for thinking they're suddenly seeing triple.

"Springloaded" jumps with power, beauty

Voices of the South, one of the few local theater companies regularly producing original work, owes much to the voices in Jerre Dye’s head.

Live stage events happening this week

Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s thrilling production of “Hamlet” blends inventiveness with an attention to detail that makes it memorable.