Show tunes, of course. But seriously, we enjoy all kinds of music.
Movies
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Television
Theater is life, film is art, television is furniture.
Books
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (noir-esque memoir… wacky, wild, heartfelt, and heartbreaking…). Any about live theatre.
Heroes
William Shakespeare, Edward Albee, Craig Wright, Noel Coward, Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Miguel de Cervantes, Pedro Caldern de la Barca, Pierre Corneille Molire, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, Jean Racine, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele
Voltaire, Oliver Goldsmith, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (French;
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Richard Brinsley, Sheridan, Victor Hugo
Aleksandr Pushkin, Henrik Ibsen, W.S. Gilbert , August Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, James Barrie, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Hauptmann John Galsworthy, Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
Luigi Pirandello, Somerset Maugham, Thornton Wilder, Sean O'Casey, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, Elmer Rice, Antonin Artaud, Philip Barry, Federico Garca Lorca, Noel Coward, Christopher Isherwood, Lillian Hellman, Jean Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Clifford Odets,
Jean Anouilh, Tennessee Williams, Eugne Ionesco, William Inge, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Vclav Havel, Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepard, August Wilson, David Mamet, David Hare, Tony Kushner, and David Sedaris, to name a few. ...oh yeah, and CRUMPET!!
About me: The mission of Tennessee Repertory Theatre is to be a flagship regional theatre by creating the highest quality professional theatre, serving Middle Tennessee as a prime cultural resource, and contributing to the cultural, educational, economic and general welfare of Nashville, Middle Tennessee, and the State of Tennessee.
Tennessee Rep’s 2008-2009 season:
SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
October 4 - October 18
A rare instance of a musical thriller, this chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, SWEENEY TODD nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise
MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS by Ron Hutchinson
November 8 - November 22
Set in 1939 Hollywood, it tells the story of what happened when legendary producer David O. Selznick shut down production of his new epic, GONE WITH THE WIND. The screenplay, you see, just isn’t working. So what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off the film’s stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time.
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet
February 7 - February 21
Never has the author's ear for the rhythms of contemporary speech been more keen than in this tale of cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. In the first act, the salesmen vie for position as they gulp their cocktails in the local Chinese restaurant. The second act shifts to the office, where the promising Glengarry Glen Ross leads have been filched. Mamet’s not-so-subtle reflection on how bad things happen when vulnerable people are reduced to targets by unscrupulous sharks unfortunately still resonates today, from the current credit card debacle to the subprime mortgage collapse.
THE RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire
March 21 - April 4
A brilliant new play, it is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and I can tell you we were not the only local theatre trying to obtain rights to do this wonderful play. It tells the story of Becca and Howie Corbett, who have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. RABBIT HOLE charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. A small cast of five, it will be a great showcase for the kind of acting we present the best.
DARWIN IN MALIBU by Crispin Whittell
May 2 - May 16
It is funny yet intriguing, smart, and thoughtful. It is set in Malibu, California. The present. One hundred and twenty years after his death, Charles Darwin is hanging out in a beach house overlooking the Pacific with a girl young enough to be his daughter. His peace is rudely disturbed when his old friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach closely followed by the Bishop of Oxford. And Darwin suddenly finds himself entangled in an enthralling and thought-provoking comedy about God, science, and plastic surgery. And you may think you know how such a discussion would go between the father of evolution and one of evolution’s most outspoken critics in his day. But you will be surprised. And we wouldn’t be surprised if this play ends up on the top ten list for TCG soon.
SANTALAND DIARIES (a holiday special) by David Sedaris
November 28 - December 20
This hilarious one-man show has been one of Tennessee Rep’s most oft-asked-for Christmas traditions, and in its previous presentation was the biggest holiday seller for Tennessee Rep to date. And with Sedaris himself scheduled to appear at TPAC in October it seemed like a good time to bring it back. It is a brilliant evocation of what a slacker's Christmas must feel like and appears on the TCG top ten list this season. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy's elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa's workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter. Taking consolation in the fact that some of the other elves were television extras on One Life to Live, he grins and bears it, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike.
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