Theater/Dance

The MCR Interview:

The Culmination of the Sacral Series: An Interview with Becca Hoback

In Solus, Nashville-based choreographer and performer Becca Hoback brings the culmination of her multi-year Sacral Series to the stage with bracing honesty, emotional intensity, and arresting physicality. Known for her fluid, introspective movement language, Hoback channels the deeply personal process of deconstructing belief systems into a multidisciplinary performance that merges dance, film, and live music. Barely a week before the work’s premiere at OZ Arts Nashville on December 5 & 6, in conversation with the Music City Review, Hoback reflects on the inspirations, challenges, and collaborative processes that have shaped this raw and resonant artistic journey. MCR: Solus is describedRead More

From Nashville's most intimate boards

Alice by Heart at the Barbershop

Street Theatre Company’s Alice by Heart, directed by Leslie Marberry, opens this weekend at the Barbershop theater in West Nashville. I was lucky enough to view the final dress rehearsalRead More

The Mountaintop

Celebrate Black History Month by seeing Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. The Tennessee playwright is the first Black valedictorian who graduated from Craigmont High School in Memphis before earning degrees fromRead More

& Juliet

Most of us know of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by heart. The classic tragedy follows the termitous love story between two teenagers whose passionate love leads to their demise. ButRead More

In a return to Tennessee

Martha Graham Dance Company at James K. Polk Theater

In a 2024 article on Jamar Roberts for The Dance Enthusiast, actor/dancer, Toussaint Jeanlouis refers to “perseverance in spite of,” a trait psychologist C. Robert Cloninger considers “foundational in aiding,Read More

Coming to Street Theatre: Alice By Heart

Get ready to fall down the rabbit hole! Street Theater Company’s Alice By Heart brings a new twist to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a heartfelt adaptation of the classic thatRead More

from the Nashville Opera

Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore

“We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty; We’re sober men and true, and attentive to our duty!” This boisterous opening chorus immediately set the tone forRead More

Faustin Linyekula’s ‘My Body, My Archive’

As a first-time visitor to OZ Arts Nashville, I have to say it offers a unique feel. The experience starts when you walk in the door, as if you wereRead More

Nashville, Meet Chicago

In 1920’s Chicago, two murderers try to use their celebrity and femininity to win sympathy from the press, the public, and the justice system to avoid the death penalty. AboutRead More

'Le Nozze di Figaro' at Vanderbilt

A New Take on an Opera Classic 

This past Thursday night, I had the privilege of seeing Vanderbilt Opera Theatre’s (VOT) production of Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettistRead More

Chicago comes to TPAC

In 2014, when I was a college sophomore, MTSU brought a vanful of music students to sit in the nosebleeds at TPAC’s Jackson Hall, and I saw my first-ever liveRead More