In-Person and Online Friday, October 9 at 8:00 pm (CDT) We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Friday, October 9 with an election season look at William Shakespeare’s most political and perhaps relevant tragedy…

In-Person and Online Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 pm (CDT)

We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Sunday, September 27 with a celebration of the author of The Color Purple in our Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salon Series.

In a Purple Mood: Alice Walker will be presented both in-person on TSC’s Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage and simulcast online beginning at 3:00 pm (CDT), will be followed by a brief talkback with the actors. The Salon will run approximately 45 minutes.

Curated and directed by TSC’s Carmen-maria Mandley and featuring TSC’s core company actors, including Darius Wallace, In a Purple Mood will include Ms. Walker’s poetry (Taking the Arrow out of the Heart), material from her interviews, and excerpts read from The Color Purple.

In-Person and Online Friday, September 11 at 8:00 pm (CDT) – We continue our “Essential” 13th performance season on Friday, September 11 with the second of nine Dr. Greta McCormick Coger Literary Salons titled Creative Extremists: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Malcolm X. The 45-minute Salon, presented both in-person on TSC’s Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage and simulcast online beginning at 8:00 pm (CDT), creatively follows the inspirations, emergence, and actions of three men fighting for racial justice and equality in America.

Online-Only Sunday, August 30 at 3:00 pm (CDT) — We launch our “Essential” 13th performance season this Sunday, August 30 with the first of nine Coger Literary Salons titled Take Upon’s the Mystery of Things: Classical Creativity in Quarantine. Please join us for this special 45-minute Salon, presented online-only beginning at 3:00 pm (CDT), as we seek out history’s classical creations from within isolation as inspirations for our own modern quarantine and pandemic.

Welcome to our 13th Performance Season:  Essential Featuring Dynamic, Interactive Literary Salons, a Pandemic Romeo and Juliet, an Inaugural Online Academy for all Ages, and both In-Person and Online Options on the Newly-Elizabethan Tabor Stage…

Tennessee Shakespeare Company today announced that at its recent Annual Board meeting last week the Directors appointed the NBA Memphis Grizzlies’ television broadcaster Pete Pranica as a Board member for a three-year term beginning July 1.

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