Author Archive
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
FIVE QUESTIONS WITH … Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown plays the title role in Coriolanus which is presented by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival in collaboration with Naked Stages. He is a member of Naked Stages‘ ensemble who has worked with Nashville’s Mockingbird Public Theater, the GATE conservatory in New York City and The Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C. Brown is currently a [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
CORIOLANUS: Thoughts from the Director
Last October, when Nashville Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Denice Hicks telephoned me to ask if I really intended to produce CORIOLANUS in Naked Stages’ 08-09 season, I answered yes. I knew that in an election year Shakespeare’s rugged play about power and politics was a perfect fit. Denice agreed. She agreed so [...]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
CORIOLANUS on Out and About Today!
Click here to see Denice Hicks and Christoper Brown talking about CORIOLANUS on the NewsChannel 5+ program Out and About Today.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Praise in the SCENE for I AM MY OWN WIFE!
Here’s what Martin Brady had to say in the NASHVILLE SCENE this week about the Naked Stages production of I AM MY OWN WIFE:
“Mark Cabus’ one-man performance in Doug Wright’s Pulitzer-winning I AM MY OWN WIFE both opened and closed last week with four performances at Belmont’s Black Box Theater. Those who availed themselves of [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Five Questions With … I AM MY OWN WIFE Director Kate Al-Shamma
Kate Al-Shamma recently relocated to Nashville from California. She currently teaches acting, voice, and movement at Belmont University and has taught these and related performance courses at universities in San Francisco and Santa Barbara over the past fourteen years. As both a performer and a director, Kate specializes in image-driven theatre, which includes Shakespeare as [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Four Performances Only for I AM MY OWN WIFE
Due to unexpected scheduling conflicts at Belmont University, we are presenting I AM MY OWN WIFE, starring Mark Cabus, for four performances only, June 12 through 15. In addition to the date changes, we have a new yet familiar venue as well: the beautiful Black Box Theatre on Compton Avenue (right behind the [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Auditions for Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Naked Stages’ CORIOLANUS
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, in collaboration with Naked Stages, announces auditions for the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of CORIOLANUS, directed by Mark Cabus.
Equity auditions will be held Thursday and Friday, April 24th - 25th, 9am - 5pm, at Nashville Public Television, and non-Equity auditions will be held Saturday, April 26th, 10am-6pm, at the [...]
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT Thrusts into Naked Stages
Get your mind out of the gutter. That line comes from Shakespeare himself:
“Be not afraid of greatness:
Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
And some have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
– TWELFTH NIGHT; Act II, Scene 5
NAKED STAGES and the VALHALLA SHAKESPEARE PROJECT will bring their own modern twist to one of the Bard’s greatest comedies this [...]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
New Dates for I AM MY OWN WIFE Announced
It’s official. We have new dates for I AM MY OWN WIFE: June 5 through 15, 7:30 PM, at the Troutt Theatre on Belmont University campus (2100 Belmont Boulevard). Our Wednesday preview, June 4, and Wednesday performance, June 11, are still Pay-What-You-Can nights. There is no June 8 Sunday matinee, but rather a Sunday matinee [...]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I AM MY OWN WIFE Postponed
Unforeseeable circumstances have forced us to postpone our upcoming performances of I AM MY OWN WIFE until later this spring. We apologize to our Naked Stages patrons and to the community for any inconvenience this incurs. I AM MY OWN WIFE has stirred an enormous amount of interest in Nashville, and we look forward to [...]
