Checking on the Arts interview of Buyer and Cellar, which opens Friday, 21 August 2015 and closes 6 September 2015 ...

For information or tickets: http://playhouseonthesquare.org/
or 901-726-4656

BuyerAndCellar

Buddy

Jesmyn Ward will be in Memphis to give a public lecture about the 2016 Memphis Reads selection, Salvage the Bones at Christian Brothers University on September 28, 2016 at 7 pm and to participate in an open Q&A at Rhodes College at 6 p.m. on September 29, 2016.

Since winning the National Book Award for Salvage the Bones in 2011, Jesmyn Ward has assumed the mantle with the likes of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner to emerge as one of the great living Southern and American writers. Her most recent book is a collection titled, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race.

Counterpoint - Jesmyn-Ward

Checking on the Arts was honored by the conversation with Morgan Jon Fox ... more info about his latest creation:
https://goo.gl/nHzXzl

Facebook page with updates and info: https://www.facebook.com/feralseries/

Morgan Jon Fox - Feral

The Thursday "Friday" Live Lunch for Sisters of Swing at Circuit, opening Friday, 7 October 2016

Sisters of Swing Checking on the Arts 2016

2016 - 10 - 10 Checking On The Arts

Someday For A Crown 
When: Starts March 31. Sundays, 2 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Continues through April 9 
Price: $15 
www.theatreworksmemphis.org
When Alzheimer's disease changes a loved one's personality, do we try to get them to "come back" or do we try to "meet them where they are?" Semi-autobiographical account of a close family's struggles.

Someday For A Crown

Checking on the Arts 
11 April 2017
Director John Maness discusses Germantown Community Theatre's upcoming production of The Glass Menagerie, which opens April 14 and runs til April 30.

Tickets and information at:
901-453-7447 or
http://www.gctcomeplay.org

Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Laura also lives in her illusions. She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family. 

Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home.

A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, THE GLASS MENAGERIE is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.

The Glass Menagerie

Host Eric Barnes, editor of the Memphis Daily News, is joined by Paul Young, Director of Housing and Community Development for the city of Memphis; Bill Dries, of the Memphis Daily News; Fred Jones, founder of the Southern Heritage Classic; and Marvin Stockwell, co-founder of Friends of the Fairgrounds.

Behind the Headlines Radio Roundtable 18 Aug 2017

What might three former First Ladies reveal if they could? “TEA FOR THREE: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty” is a fresh and intimate look at a unique American sorority: three formidable women of the White House. A delicately layered gallery of portraits, the play draws the audience in with humorous and poignant insights into each lady's life.

Elaine Bromka talks with Darel Snodgrass about her performance at the Buckman Performing Arts Center at St Mary's School Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 7:30pm in a benefit for the placement of a Memphis Suffrage Monument on Civic Center Plaza downtown, honoring suffragists and civil rights leaders from Memphis' history.

More information at http://teaforthree.com

Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tea-for-three-benefiting-memphis-suffrage-monument-tickets-40167691647?aff=ebdsorderfblightbox

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