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The Tennessee Shakespeare Company presents an outdoor production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" starting Friday night at the Dixon Gallery Gardens.

The Summer Group Exhibition starts Wednesday and runs through June 24 at David Perry Smith Gallery in Cooper-Young. An opening reception takes place June 1. The show includes new paintings by Greg Gustafson, Andy Reed, Jancie Alebertine, Martica Griffin, Alex ...

The Tennessee Watercolor Society 33rd Exhibition opening reception takes place from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Gallery Ten Ninety One in Cordova. The juried exhibit features 70 pieces by more than 50 artists.

Described by some as an Italian Woody Allen, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio returns with "The Salt of Life," a 2011 comedy about a middle-age retiree in Rome coping with a disinterested wife, a spendthrift mother, a slacker potential son-in-law and ...

In "Noises Off," at Theatre Memphis, the spotlight is on a crew of B-list actors who rehearse a British bedroom farce to tour small towns across Britain. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; final show 2 p.m. Sunday.

"Art of the Philippines" presents select paints from the collection of the Philippine Center in New York in conjunction with Memphis in May "Salute to the Philippines" International Week. On display through May 29 at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central ...

Musicians Justin Timberlake and Ryan Tedder of pop group One Republic partner to open a new barbecue restaurant.

Michael Frayn’s famous backstage/frontstage farce is restaged at Theatre Memphis beginning this weekend. “Noises Off” is the classic comedy about a group of B-list actors who go on a small-town tour across England.

The national tour of the Broadway musical comedy "The Addams Family" plays through the weekend at the Orpheum.

The Africa in April Cultural Awareness Festival, honoring the Republic of Mali, continues through Sunday on Beale Street with an International Vendors' Marketplace at Robert R. Church Park and a parade. The free festival includes live music, and fashions, jewelry ...

The Memphis/Germantown Art League's 35th annual Juried Spring Exhibition runs through April 26 at the Germantown Performing Arts Centre Lobby Gallery. An artist reception will be held from 4-6 p.m. April 14.

"The Arabian Nights" opens Thursday and continues through April 21 at the University of Memphis Mainstage Theatre. The bride Scheherazade must relate a series of stories to the King to delay her execution.

In Playhouse on the Square's "God of Carnage," two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, ...

"RAW," an exhibition of six University of Memphis graduate students, featuring photography by Ari Denison, Ginger Frye, Candace Hitt, Katie Maish, Harris Quinn, Babette Shaw, runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday during the South Main Art Trolley Tour.

"La Cage Aux Folles" continues Friday night, Saturday and Sunday at the Orpheum, starring veteran actor George Hamilton as a gay man who runs a cabaret of drag performers.

Chris Cooper and DJ Qualls head the ensemble cast of writer-director John Sayles' latest inquisition on power, personality and corruption, "Amigo," a story of guerrillas, soldiers and clergy set in 1900, during the Philippine-American War. The film plays Thursday at ...

Based on the children's books, "A Brown Bear, A Caterpillar and a Moon: Treasured Stories By Eric Carle," comes to the stage for live performance at 6 p.m. Friday.

An exhibit by Memphis artist Edith Caywood opens Tuesday and runs through March 31 at Lisa Kurts Gallery. An opening reception honoring the artist is set for 6 to 8 p.m. March 2.

Opus One, which last performed a smash engagement with Al Kapone, collaborates with Latin-jazz singer Marcela Pinilla Thursday in a celebration of tropical rhythms at the Rumba Room on South Main.

Cartoons are crowd-pleasers — and sometimes they're works of art, too, with appeal for adults and children alike. For proof, see this year's "Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts" program at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. All five of the nominated ...

Today, this newspaper launches its 16th annual "Beat Beifuss at the Oscars" contest, which has drawn more than 23,000 participants since its debut in 1997, when "The English Patient" was named Best Picture.

Showing at Joysmith/Sunsum Gallery, "Exile: Photographs by Alpha Newberry" presents an in-depth look at prominent figures of the civil disobedience in South Korea.

Local photographer Laura Beyer talks about her photographs of train graffiti during an opening reception for her exhibition in the Café Lobby at Playhouse on the Square.

Memphis College of Art presents "Robert Riseling Retrospective 1974-2011, A Founders' Day Exhibition," through Jan. 29 in the Main Gallery. A reception is set for 5-7 p.m. Friday. The 46 paintings represent Riseling's illustrious career.

"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 ...

Johnny Depp encounters Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover and Robert Mitchum during an increasingly violent vision quest through the forbidding American frontier in director Jim Jarmusch's weird Western masterpiece "Dead Man" (1995), which screens at 7 p.m. Thursday at Memphis Brooks ...

The "Global Lens" series concludes with one of the most visually striking movies to play in Memphis all year, "The White Meadows," a 2009 fable from Iran about a boatman who travels the brackish waters and rocky islands of a ...

When the Ghost of Christmas Past can't quite get her supernatural powers to send herself and Mr. Scrooge to the right place in time, they wind up at the home of a boozy and disgruntled wife in "Mrs. Bob Cratchit's ...

Best known as a member of cult favorites Modock and beloved New Orleans garage-soul outfit Royal Pendletons, singer-guitarist Michael Hurtt and his latest rockabilly-flavored project, The Haunted Hearts, return to Memphis for a free late-night show at Mollie Fontaine Lounge.

Written by Hattiloo Theatre founder Ekundayo Bandele, "If Scrooge Was a Brother" puts an urban spin on Charles Dickens' holiday classic "A Christmas Carol." Through Christmas Eve.

"fin," the University of Memphis' 2011 BFA exhibition, features works by 12 graduating students of the University's Studio Art Program. "fin" opens with a reception at 6 p.m. Friday and runs through Sunday.

Master of musical necrophagy and thaumaturgy Tav Falco, longtime leader of the Memphis-born blues-punk band Panther Burns, exposes another aspect of his talents when the now Austria-based artist introduces and screens six short films at the Memphis Brooks Museum of ...

Dancing, laughter and some of the greatest songs ever written come together in "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," a stage adaptation of the beloved classic.

"The Gifting of Art" exhibit opens Friday at T Clifton Art Gallery with a gallery open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The exhibit includes art glass, jewelry, wood, paintings, sculpture and bronze. Free and open to the ...

Multiplatinum Mississippi rockers 3 Doors Down return to Tunica for their annual concert benefiting their Better Life Foundation. To date, the annual show has raised more than $2 million for children’s charities.

"A Sondheim Celebration" features a compilation of songs by Stephen Sondheim performed in a cabaret setting on Theatre Memphis' Next Stage. Final shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

"Haters Gonna Hate," an exhibition of student-selected work from the Professional Practices class taught by Dwayne Butcher at Memphis College of Art, is on display for one evening only, 5 to 7 Saturday.

Theatre Memphis raises a glass to one of America's most honored musical theater composers this month on the Next Stage. "A Sondheim Celebration," is a collection of popular show tunes from "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," "Company," "Into the ...

Events from 1809 and today overlap as two modern-day scholars attempt to unravel history at an English manor home in Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," opening Friday at the University of Memphis Studio Theatre. The play rotates with Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Gallery Fifty Six hosts "Pseudonyms" and "An Adventure in Art -- Billy Price Carroll," through Nov. 25. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. today. "Pseudonyms" consists of 13 local artists who take on a different artistic persona. "An Adventure in Art" is ...

Peter Frampton celebrates the 35th anniversary of his seminal record, "Frampton Comes Alive!," with a concert at Mud Island Amphitheater where he will play the album in its entirety.

All new exhibitions open Sunday. "From Houdini to Hugo: The Art of Brian Selznick," through Jan. 8. Original artwork by the Caldecott Award-winning, New York Times best-selling children's author and illustrator. "Victorian Visionary: The Art of Elliott Daingerfield," through Jan. ...

The galleries and shops on Broad Avenue keep their doors open late during the Fall Art Walk. Sample food from restaurants such as The Cove, Broadway Pizza and Three Angels Diner, and hear music from the Ghost Town Blues Band. ...

On Stage

The Memphis/Germantown Art League 2011 Autumn Juried Exhibition kicks off with an artists reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at Gallery Fifty Six. The exhibit, featuring about 50 pieces of art, runs through Oct. 28.

The local chapter of the Recording Academy presents “Grammy GPS: A Roadmap for Today’s Music Biz” on Friday and Saturday. The two-day music conference and performance event is designed to give artists insights into the ever-changing state of the industry. ...

On Stage

Fresh off the release earlier this summer of his first single, funkified local singer-songwriter Ryan Peel follows up this weekend with his debut EP, "The New Memphis Sound." Peel and his band mark the occasion with a show Friday at ...

On Stage

The fifth annual Delta Fair & Music Festival at Agricenter International concludes this weekend with a variety of musical acts in addition to the rides, livestock and other attractions. Piano wildman Jason D. Williams plays at 7 p.m. Sunday.