Theater/Dance

The MCR Interview:

Composing the Magic of OZ: Dr. Edward W. Hardy on His Music for The Woodsman

Street Theatre’s upcoming season is soon to begin with the play The Woodsman, which tells the backstory story of the Tin Man through movement, puppetry, and music. Dr. Edward W.Read More

Buena Vista Orchestra Brings Cuban Music, Joy, and Virtuosity to City Winery Nashville

The Buena Vista Orchestra is a highly talented ensemble of musicians, known for their traditional Cuban melodies mixed with stellar vocals, improvisation skills, and electric stage presence. I was luckyRead More

Queer Mythmaking, Southern Opera, and the Radical Imagination of Kindling Arts Festival 2026

For nearly a decade, the Kindling Arts festival has occupied a singular place in Nashville’s cultural ecosystem. While much of the city’s artistic identity continues to orbit commercial music industriesRead More

Broadway at TPAC

Hamilton Lives up to the Hype

One of the many delights of writing for Music City Review is the variety of drama events we get to cover: besides the many wonderful resident Nashville-area theater companies performingRead More

Broadway at TPAC

The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is a famously controversial musical comedy, featuring the repeated punchline “I have maggots in my scrotum” and  a villain named “General Butt-F**king-Naked.” This show from theRead More

Nashville Opera Shines at Cheekwood

Golden Hour and Grand Opera

It had rained every day for the five days previous to Nashville Opera’s appearance on the Cheekwood grounds. Thankfully, on the beautiful evening of May 28th, we were treated toRead More

new in Middle Tennessee:

Introducing Clarksville Community Theatre

He saved up memories of childhood joys at theater camp in Chicago. He saved them through a family move to rural Kentucky, through his teenage years, through his college studiesRead More

At OZ Arts

A Theater of Apparitions, Manual Cinema Conjures ‘the 4th Witch’

Manual Cinema has spent the last decade redefining theatrical storytelling in the twenty-first century. Blending shadow puppetry, live music, cinematic editing, and analog craftsmanship into a singular performance language, theRead More

Ingram New Works: Next Stage

The Wonderful Bite of BloodSuckingLeech

Last year the Nashville Repertory Theatre presented a staged reading of BloodSuckingLeech as part of the Ingram New Works Project. This May BloodSuckingLeech was given a staged “enhanced production” asRead More

from Oz's Brave New Works

Bajo la Marea: El Ritual de Duelo y Matriarcado de Lenin Fernandez

For English Version, Click HERE Un gigantesco velo de plástico se extendía sobre el escenario como una membrana entre mundos. Linternas atravesaban sombras translúcidas mientras una joven yacía inmóvil enRead More