Stage Left: Is Nashville Ready for a Progressive Theater Scene?

www.nashvillescene.com: Early on a recent Monday morning, a group of high school students is gathered at the Global Education Center on Charlotte Avenue. They lean over drawings and canvases with paintbrushes and pens in hand. Aaron Gardner, a junior at East Nashville Magnet High School, sits beside the painting he’s just completed. It depicts two African American youths shackled together by their necks. Black straps criss-cross their faces, bearing words like hopeless, suspect, broken, voiceless and guilty.

How Do You Write a Play Inspired by Sandy Hook?

www.clydefitchreport.com: Together We Are Making a Poem in Honor of Life was influenced by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, that killed 26 people in 2012. Our son was only a few months old at the time, and we found that as brand-new parents, we were affected by the event in unexpected ways. Even speaking about the tragedy suddenly felt wrong — or maybe it was too real to know.