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Nashville Notes: The Road to OZ
"I'm just letting the city evolve around me" said my friend Diane Di Ianni when I ran into her at OZ - and OZ itself (www.oznashville.com) is certainly the prime example of how Nashville is evolving on...
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Nashville Notes: aka Veronika Electronika
I owe my career to drag queens. My musical CAFE ESCARGOT never went anywhere until I cast three guys (including the incredible Flotilla DeBarge) as the ladies of the Buckhead-Dunwoody Diet Brigade in...
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Nashville Notes: David Rush
I am very excited to be producing a reading of LENNY - David Rush's one man play about Leonard Bernstein. I felt that this was the perfect play to with which to kick off the second half of the 2014...
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Nashville Notes: Kathleen O'Brien
One of the most exciting activities on the cultural front here in Nashville these days is the "Stronger ARTS/STRONGER Cities" series presented monthly by the Vanderbilt Barnes & Noble. So far this...
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Nashville Notes: Paul Gatrell
Fall is just around the corner and pretty soon Nashville's university theatre departments will be back in action. Since I arrived here i 1999, Belmont University has lead the way on this front by...
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Nashville Notes: Dr. Leah Lowe & Vanderbilt University Theatre
In the 19th century, before folks started calling us Music City, Nashville was known as "The Athens of the South" because of it's outstanding educational institutions - with Vanderbilt University at...
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Nashville Notes: Manuel's Couture
True story # 1: 1950. Johnny Cash has just been signed to a record label and he needs some performance couture, so he goes to his friend Manuel and commissions five suits. Manuel has a stock of back...
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Nashville Notes: Mike Fernandez
In the few short years that he has been Chair of the theatre department at Lipscomb University, Mike Fernandez has radically changed the Nashville theatre scene, not only through the department's own...
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Nashville Notes: Nancy Allen
Nashville theatre's greatest treasure is the Musical Theatre Program at Belmont Univerisity, which in recent years has brought us amazing productions of shows like THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, THE DROWSEY...
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Nashville Notes: Gus O'Brien
"At 10 years old, Gus O'Brien has already had a stage career that would make many an older actor drool. With Studio Tenn, the Franklin based professional theatre company that has seriously raised the...
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