“Playing with Light and Shadow” is Ted Jones’ new original one-man musical show — a personal recollection in story and song with a unique twist: Jones plays a bright blue electric harp. Fusing Classical, Jazz and Blues music with musical theatre, Jones illuminates his own life of light and shadow through a lifetime of play: as a child, as an actor, as a harpist.

What began as Robert Harling’s beautiful, cathartic memoir about his sister has become a widely beloved play and popular film about the hope, healing — and even humor — possible in the midst of heartache. Laugh, cry and fall in love all over again with these iconic characters who are “as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel.”

Ryan Bowie is back as “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll diva! This groundbreaking award-winning musical is rocking, funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile.

Set sail with Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic comedy boasting one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history! This swashbuckling musical journey is a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the oft-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty.

Presented by the Roxy Regional School of the Arts

A hilarious musical about a musical by people who write musicals! Struggling writers Jeff and Hunter are desperate to get a piece into the New York Musical Theatre Festival, which is just three weeks away. With the help of friends, the duo embarks on an artistic and humorous journey of creative self-expression.

Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey which preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper, to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly-arrived in America, this illuminating one-woman show tells her remarkable untold story.

Presented in theotherspace.

“Oh, the thinks you can think” when Dr. Seuss’s best-loved characters collide and cavort in an unforgettable musical caper! Such colorful characters as Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and JoJo, a Who child with a big imagination, will transport you from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

Based on a true story and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning one-man show tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German Communist regime.

Presented in theotherspace.

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday and twenty-two days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister and four others. Adapted from the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and told through the eyes and words of a teenage girl, the inspirational true story of two Jewish families’ struggle to survive amid the chaos of war and religious persecution has become an essential tool for understanding one of the darkest periods in human history.

Get ready for an unpredictable evening as comedy legend Gallagher brings his unique show to the corner of Franklin and First on his 70th birthday farewell tour! Joined by master comedians Artie Fletcher and Bob Nelson, this whirlwind of ad lib spontaneous fun will have you rolling in the aisles … and ducking for cover from the SLEDGE-O-MATIC!

ALL NIGHTS SOLD OUT!

Funny, outrageous, emotionally affecting and occasionally angry … Eve Ensler’s series of monologues about women and performed by women is back for the fifteenth year!

This year’s special guest readers include:

Courtney Berlyak, owner of Sango Village Florist (Jan 13, 14, 18 and 19)

Tara Quirion, realtor with Coldwell Banker, Conroy, Marable & Holleman (Jan 20 and 21)

Jill Eichhorn, professor of Women’s Studies at APSU (Jan 25 and 26)

Melissa Schaffner, marketing director at Fort Campbell MWR (Jan 27 and 28)

Presented in theotherspace.

Eubie the Elf is on a musical mission to bring Christmas cheer to Bluesville, a town on Santa’s naughty list … but can he turn a whole town of naughty children nice in just one day? With a pinch of elfish magic and a magical whoosh, Grammy Award-winning composer and lyricist Harry Connick, Jr. introduces a new generation to the joys of jazz through this festive tale about overcoming adversity, friendship, the power of positivity and believing in yourself.

Henry IV is dead, and Prince Hal has taken the throne. With England in a state of unrest, Hal must leave behind his rebellious youth to unite his broken nation in Shakespeare’s exploration of what makes a man a king … and a king a man.

Dig out your fishnet stockings and sharpen your stilettos … that sweet transvestite and his motley crew are back for the fifth year! On the way to visit an old college professor, two clean-cut young people, Brad Majors and his fiancee Janet Weiss, run into trouble and seek help at the freaky Frankenstein mansion. With Richard O’Brien’s cult favorite, prepare to do the “Time Warp” like you have never done it before!

Audience participation is encouraged, and patrons are invited to dress up in their favorite ROCKY HORROR attire. Bags of props will also be for sale in the lobby one hour prior to every performance. The following items, however, will not be permitted: rice, confetti, glitter, squirt guns, lighters, matches, candles, silly spray string, or any other objects which may damage the theatre or injure actors and/or audience members.

Who was the Wicked Witch of the West? Did you ever wonder what might have made Almira Gulch so bitter? Find out in this one-man musical, when master songwriter Fred Barton brings to life the snippety, crotchety, black-and-white alter-ego to the most maligned character in The Wizard of Oz.

Presented in theotherspace.

On December 4, 1956, an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records in Memphis for what would be one of the greatest jam sessions ever. Take a glimpse inside the recording studio on that legendary night with an unforgettable evening of red-hot rock ‘n’ roll hits including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Walk the Line,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” “Hound Dog,” and more.

Despite global panic in the 1930s, people found themselves rallying the only way they knew how — through music. Sit back and enjoy a special evening “on the terrazzo” as the cast takes you on a musical journey through the decade. Presented in an intimate cabaret setting in our lobby and featuring such favorites as “Stormy Weather,” “I Got Rhythm,” “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered,” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Moonlight Serenade” and two dozen others, this new musical revue will have you reminiscing and singing all night!