Month: October 2025

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Preview: Music City Oratorio Festival Brings Handel’s Messiah to Life — Nashville Style

Nashville, TN — Early Music City invites singers and music lovers to take part in the 2025 Music City Oratorio Festival, a two-day celebration of choral artistry and community music-makingRead More

At the Schermerhorn

The Nashville Symphony Reflects on Hope

The fortunate Nashville Symphony audience attending either “Reflections and Hope” performances experienced profound, deeply moving music. And the audience on Saturday night knew it. Though sparsely attended—undeservedly so—the potent silences,Read More

Here Comes the Holiday!

Ponder this Christmas at Picture This Gallery

The local art scene is getting festive: Nashville-based watercolorist Phil Ponder is returning to the gallery for his second annual holiday-themed exhibition titled “Ponder This Christmas”, hosted at Picture ThisRead More

Compagnie Dyptik’s Le Grand Bal at OZ Arts Nashville

Picture it: Strasbourg – 1518 – A Franco-German Renaissance Bonnaroo. Sort of. The French dance company, Compagnie Dyptik, finds inspiration from tales of a historic dancing plague in their production,Read More

At the Darkhorse Theater

Women in Theatre’s Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson

Sherlock Holmes is a cultural phenomenon that has been massive since the 1880’s, from almost the beginning of the detective genre. While everybody knows Edgar Alan Poe’s The Raven andRead More

At the Frist

Masquerades and the Masks We Wear

The current exhibit at the Frist Art Museum is New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations. This exhibit presents the work of four contemporary masquerade artists: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey NsaRead More

Coming Soon: Rosa

The Chilean company TeatroCinema brings its acclaimed production Rosa to Nashville, combining live performance, film, and animation in a visually distinctive style that plays out like a graphic novel onRead More

Coming Soon: Death Drop!

Woven Theatre Company, known for their acclaimed productions The Naughty Tree and Christmas Carol Circuit Party, returns with Death Drop! A Drag Murder Mystery. In partnership with Play Dance Bar,Read More

At the Schermerhorn

Fate, Pastoral Exile, and Black Dances

I attended the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s concert on October 2, 2025, part of a two-night program at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Jonathan Taylor Rush conducted the evening’s performance. Rush hasRead More

Nashville Ballet’s If I Can Dream

The Nashville Ballet is back in session, celebrating their 40th anniversary with the Ruby Season with an opening weekend October 10–12, 2025, at TPAC’s Polk Theater. This year’s motto, “It’sRead More