Amy Stumpfl

1 month ago | williamsonscene.com | Amy Stumpfl

It may be called The Play That Goes Wrong, but as Studio Tenn prepares to open this high-flying comedy, director and designer Matt Logan is focused on the long list of things that need to go exactly right.

2 months ago | nashvillescene.com | Amy Stumpfl

Nashville’s explosive growth has been well-documented over the past several years, revealing a wide range of opportunities, along with some intricate challenges. With the premiere of Lost and Found: A Story of Hope, one group of dedicated community leaders is hoping to spark conversation while honoring a unique chapter in the city’s history. Youth About Business Presents Lost and Found: A Story of Hope Feb. 15-28 at Manna From Heaven Dinner House, 3510 West Hamilton Ave.

2 months ago | williamsonscene.com | Amy Stumpfl

Playwright Beth Henley has built her career on eccentric Southern characters and dark humor, producing familiar titles such as The Miss Firecracker Contest. And with its current production of Crimes of the Heart, Studio Tenn gives us Henley at her finest, taking on themes of family dysfunction and setting the standard for Southern tragicomedies.

Jan 23, 2025 | nashvillescene.com | Amy Stumpfl

We Americans do love our heroes. The problem is that in building them up to such mythical proportions, we often lose sight of what makes them so special. The Mountaintop Feb. 14-23 at TPAC’s Andrew Johnson TheaterIn the case of The Mountaintop, however, Pulitzer Prize-winning Tennessee playwright Katori Hall gives us a full-blooded and decidedly human hero in Martin Luther King Jr. Nashville Rep’s production of the play — which opens at TPAC’s Andrew Johnson Theater on Feb.

Jan 13, 2025 | williamsonscene.com | Amy Stumpfl

The name Oscar Levant may not mean much to modern audiences. But in the hit play, Good Night, Oscar — opening Jan. 16 from the Franklin Theatrical Fellowship — we get an intimate look at the man who’s been called “one of the 20th century’s greatest wits.”Penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), the story delves into Levant’s many complexities. A celebrated concert pianist and composer, Levant was considered to be the leading interpreter of George Gershwin’s music.