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Out Front on Main, Inc. is pleased to present Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all For You by Christopher Durang and Directed by Ryan Vogel May 10-20 Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30pm. Out Front on Main, Inc. is located at 1511 E. Main Street in historic downtown Murfreesboro. Tickets and Info (615) 869-8617 or www.outfrontonmain.com
A Dark Comedy about Religion for everyone to laugh at.
Sister Mary Ignatius (Holly Amber), a teaching nun who is much concerned with sin in all of it's various forms, deliver a cautionary lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named Thomas (Michael Hayes), can quote the Ten Commandments on cue, and each time he does so Sister Mary rewards him with a cookie. But when several of her former students turn up, the picture darkens. One of them is a happy mother of an illegitimate child (Anna Matsen); another a contennted homosexual (Ryan T Daniel); still another has had two abortions (Kelly Northcutt-Hayes); while the other student, now an alcoholic, contemplates suicide (Ryan Vogel). Thier stories are disturbing - but also very funny - and it is quickly apparent that one thing they all have in common is thier loathing for Sister Mary and the unyeilding dogma which she forced on them in their formative years. In the end there is mayhem and bloodshed but, with this, the unsettling feeling that, amid the laughter, some devastating truths have been told.
Fairies and Forests
Did you know that we have a fairies living at Barfield Crescent Park? Once you know what to look and listen for, their marks are everywhere in the forest. Come out and see the forest through a new set of eyes. **Guided hikes last about 30 minutes each; groups will leave every 15 minutes. For ages 4 and up the fee is $3.00 (adults are free).
Music in the Forest
Join us in an afternoon of wonderful, whimsical, Celtic music with David Coe and Jim Wood. Together this duo has shared the stage with Vince Gill, Michael Martin Murphey, The Rogues, Roy Acuff, Emmylou Harris and many more. The talents of fiddle playing by David Coe are rooted in the old-time Appalachian tunes of the southeastern United States as well as traditional Irish fiddling. While Jim Wood brings a variety of instruments to the stage including guitar, bouzouki, and mandolin. It’s sure to delight audiences of all ages for free.
Both programs will be held at the Wilderness Station on Saturday, May 5th from 1- 3 p.m. The Wilderness Station is located at 697 Barfield Crescent Road, Murfreesboro. For more information contact the Wilderness Station at 615-217–3017.
Out Front on Main, Inc. is pleased to announce Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize Winning 'night, Mother directed by Ryan T. Daniel. The show runs April 19-29 Thursdays-Sundays at 7:30pm. Reservations and info at (615) 869-8617 or www.outfrontonmain.com Out Front on Main, Inc. is located at 1511 E. Main Street, Murfreesboro, beside MTSU.
Briefly, `night, Mother is a play one act with two characters on the stage, Jessie Cates (Lora Phillips Hortert), late thirties to early forties, who lives with her mother, Thelma (Meigie Mabry). The play opens with Jessie asking her mother where a particular gun is kept. She finds it with Thelma's help. As she cleans the gun, she quietly announces she's going to be killing herself at the end of the evening. Jessie's announcement sets off a fierce struggle between mother and daughter, with Thelma using every strategy she can conceive of to talk Jessie out of her plan. Thelma becomes so desperate, she even resorts to telling Jessie the truth about a number of issues that have affected her life.
This play is brilliant in every way, characters, dialogue, pacing. The reason I've included it in this work book is because it illustrates a central facet about the nature of what creates drama in a story: the anticipation of an outcome for a dramatic issue. In this case, that means that Thelma, and the story's audience, learns early on of Jessie's plans. And because of learning Jessie's plans, both Thelma and the story's audience are thrust deep into the heart of this story's questions...
Dr. Mark Jackson of the MTSU English Department will lead a special lecture on folk and blues musician Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter on Tuesday, April 3.
Ledbetter was a Louisiana native who gained national fame in the 1940s after decades of performing folk and blues music across the South. Imprisoned twice, “Lead Belly” used his jail time to learn and write more songs, even using music to gain a pardon from a Texas governor.The 4:30 p.m. lecture will be held in Room 106 of the Paul W. Martin Senior Honors Building on campus. It’s part of the Spring 2012 Honors Lecture Series at MTSU, which is focused on “Prison Writing.”
Folklorists Alan and John Lomax discovered Ledbetter in the Angola Prison Farm while recording prison songs for the Library of Congress and brought him and his music to the rest of the world.
“Lead Belly” was best known for his work on the 12-string guitar, although he played multiple instruments, including the accordion, mandolin and piano. He brought folk ballads like “Goodnight Irene,” “Midnight Special,” “The House of the Rising Sun” and “The Rock Island Line” into the mainstream and wrote his own gospel, blues, folk, political and topical songs.
Jackson teaches courses on American literature, popular culture, folklore and American song at MTSU. He published Prophet Singer: The Voice and Vision of Woody Guthriethrough the University Press of Mississippi in 2007 and also compiled, edited and produced several CDs through the West Virginia University Press, including “Coal Digging Blues: Songs of West Virginia Miners.”
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about the MTSU Honors Lecture Series, visit www.mtsu.edu/honors or call 615-898-2152.
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In the rash of the epidemic of bullying and suicides Out Front on Main, Inc. will present a three night campaign to address Bullying and offer insight and hope that it does get better! This mixed media presentation will include stand-up comedy, filmed sketches, live performance sketches and many other art forms.
Out Front on Main, Inc. presents an original show BULLY THIS! March 29-31 at 7:30pm. Save the dates, each night will offer a different line-up and presentations with Reality Star Peter Depp headlining each night of performance. Information and reservations at (615) 869-8617 or www.outfrontonmain.com This show is rated PG-13.
Logo Design by Jessica Theiss and Mayflower photography!
Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior manifested by the use of force or coercion to affect others, particularly when the behavior is habitual and involves an imbalance of power. It can include verbal harassment, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. The "imbalance of power" may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".
Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, while some U.S. states have laws against it.
Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more 'lieutenants' who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.
Remember to save the dates: March 29th-31st at Out Front on Main, Inc.
Okay, Here is the updated line-up for Performance:
Thursday March 29:
- Emcee Patrick Gaffney
- Bryce Damuth
- Derek Dawson
- Keymo Coleman
- Thomas Prunier
- Erica McKown
- Peter Depp
Friday, March 30:
- Emcee Patrick Gaffney
- JR Roberson
- Jerry Harvey
- Ashley Corby
- Scott Neese
- Annastacia Beaverhousen
- Erica McKown
- Peter Depp
Saturday March 31:
- Emcee Patrick Gaffney
- Jason Barnes
- Christy Eidson
- Kenn Webb
- Jessica Carter
- Thomas Prunier
- Erica McKown
- Peter Depp
In addition to these performers Each night will include original video by Zechariah McBryde and a live short called Letters to God written by Mic Rex and directed by George W. Manus, Jr. featuring Jessica Theiss, McKenzie Wallace, Ryan Daniel and Jared Pickett.
Concert pianist David Witten will present a free public recital at 8 p.m. on March 27 in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
His March 27 program will include works by Aaron Copland, Maurice Ravel and Nikolai Tcherepnin.Witten, the coordinator of keyboard studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, also enjoys an international career that has included concert tours in Ireland, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Mexico, South America and China.
Witten recently recorded the piano works of Nikolai Tcherepnin, who also is the father of somewhat better-known composer Alexander Tcherepnin, on the Toccata Classics label and performed and lectured on the elder Tcherepnin’s works in Russia.
“Dr. Witten has always had a nose for finding interesting and less frequently performed piano works,” said Lynn Rice-See, coordinator of keyboard studies at MTSU.
One of the Nikolai Tcherepnin works on the program, “Pushkin’s Fairy Tale of The Fisherman and the Fish,” will include narration by MTSU faculty tenor H. Stephen Smith.
For more MTSU School of Music concert information, call 615-898-2493 or visitwww.mtsumusic.com and click on the “Concert Calendar” link.
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner With Friends continues March 22-24 at 7:30pm, directed for the stage by BWW TN Best Director George W. Manus, Jr. Out Front on Main, Inc. is located at 1511 E. Main Street in historic downtown Murfreesboro, TN Tickets are $10 general admission and $5. students and seniors. Info and reservations (615) 869-8617 or www.outfrontonmain.com Dinner With Friends celebrates two years of Out Front on Main, Inc. in Murfreesboro.
Gabe and Karen (Tony Hortert and Holly Amber), a happily married middle-aged couple, have been friends with Tom and Beth (Molly Breen and Bryce Damuth), another married couple, for many years. In fact, it was Gabe and Karen who fixed up their friends in the first place. While having dinner at Gabe and Karen's home one night, Beth tearfully reveals that she is getting a divorce from Tom, who has been unfaithful.
Over the course of the play, we see both couples at different ages and stages of their lives, and we witness the effects of Tom and Beth's breakup on Gabe and Karen, who first feel compelled to choose sides, and then begin to question the strength of their own seemingly tranquil marriage. They also begin to see the real meaning behind their friendships with Tom and Beth.
Chad Young of Nashville Parent Magazine writes: "George W. Manus Jr.’s expert direction brings the drama to the forefront, especially in regard to the fact that the gravity existing with what’s not said speaks volumes over what is spoken. Out Front on Main’s Dinner with Friends is truly the best theater production I’ve seen in a long, long time! And the power of this show certainly roots Out Front as a true gem of Rutherford County’s theater arena."
Tom, who had been away on business, finds out that Beth has told their friends about the looming divorce, and hastens to Gabe and Karen's home. Tom and Beth had planned to tell their friends about their breakup together, but Tom now believes that Beth has unfairly presented herself as the wronged party, and feels he must present his own side of the story.
Murfreesboro, TN - Get your Katniss costumes ready. This Thursday, Read To Succeed, United Way, Linebaugh Library and Greenhouse Ministries are hosting a Hunger Games movie premiere party at the library’s Murfreesboro’s location.
Before you head off to the midnight premiere of the movie, stop by Linebaugh Library from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a can of food for Greenhouse Ministries’ food pantry. The more cans you bring, the more chances you have to win a door prize.
The party will feature a Hunger Games costume contest, a trivia contest, and food.
The celebration of The Hunger Games movie release is a part of Read To Succeed’s One Book program, which challenges residents to join together to read a chosen book. This year's selection is the bestselling adventure novel. Community reaction and involvement has been so overwhelming, Murfreesboro even made a national top 20 list of cities most obsessed with the book.
“We’ve had so much great involvement, community support and discussion of this book for several months,” says Kory Wells, One Book co-chair. “What we thought was a fantastic response was confirmed by Amazon.com’s top 20 list of cities most obsessed with the books. We’re expecting this party to be a wonderful culmination of the response and enthusiasm for these characters.”
MTSU graduate and freelance videographer Jonathan Parris will even be showcasing some of his Hunger Games-inspired props at the party, which look like they came directly off the movie set. Parris has created a short film based on the third novel in the popular young adult trilogy.
"Jonathan's work shows a lot of true ingenuity and skill,” says One Book co-chair Laura Beth Payne. “His inspiration is drawn straight from the books and will definitely impress fans. We're thrilled to present his professional talents at this celebration for the Hunger Games."
And on Saturday, March 24, Read To Succeed is teaming up with Premiere 6 Theater in Murfreesboro to collect more food for Greenhouse. At 10 am, Premiere 6 will have an exclusive showing of the movie for people who bring a can of food for Greenhouse (in addition to the lowest ticket price). At 2 p.m., bringing a can of food for Greenhouse will also secure you the lowest ticket price to The Hunger Games.
One Book is a collaboration of Read To Succeed, Ingram Content Group, Linebaugh Library, Barnes & Noble, Greenhouse Ministries and United Way to promote reading and literacy in Rutherford County.
For more information on One Book, Read To Succeed, and The Hunger Games, visit readtosucceed.org or call 615-738-READ.
Country artist Julie Roberts will be the special musical guest at the Go Red For Women Men’s Event on March 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 at Belle Meade Country Club.
More than 100 community, business and medical leaders will gather to pledge support for the heart health of the women in their lives and for the Go Red For Women movement. Funds raised at the event go to support the mission of the American Heart Association.
Julie has received Top New Artist and Top New Female Vocalist nominations from the Academy of Country Music, as well as a Breakthrough Artist nomination from the CMT Awards. She has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, was chosen to sing the “Good To Go” theme song for ABC’s Good Morning America and joined pop superstar Rihanna in a Clinique HAPPY campaign. Her dress is currently on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame as part of their “Something in Red” red dress exhibit in honor of Go Red For Women. She is on tour to support her new album and single, “Whiskey and You.”
Go Red For Women is sponsored nationally by Macy’s and Merck, and sponsored locally by Saint Thomas Heart. Men’s Event presenting sponsors are Iasis and Vanderbilt Heart. Men’s Event sponsor is Pinnacle.
The highly-anticipated movie based on The Hunger Games is less than two weeks from its premiere, and Read To Succeed, Linebaugh Library, Greenhouse Minitries and United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties are giving the community a chance to celebrate.
On March 22 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Read To Succeed will host a Hunger Games premiere party at Linebaugh Library before the movie’s midnight premiere. Guests needs to bring a can of food for Greenhouse Ministries for admittance to the party. The more cans you bring, the more chances you have to win a door prize.
The party will feature a Hunger Games costume contest, a trivia contest, and food, along with providing canned food for Greenhouse Ministries.
And on Saturday, March 24, Read To Succeed is teaming up with Premiere 6 Theater in Murfreesboro to collect more food for Greenhouse. At 10 am, Premiere 6 will have an exclusive showing of the movie for people who bring a can of food for Greenhouse (in addition to the lowest ticket price). At 2 p.m., bringing a can of food for Greenhouse will also secure you the lowest ticket price to The Hunger Games.
“The Hunger Games has been a great conversation starter for readers of all ages this year,” said Laura Beth Payne, One Book co-chair. “Now the movie is just one more way to engage our community in discussions about ideas. We're thrilled to partner with local theaters to celebrate The Hunger Games as well as raise awareness about meeting needs in Rutherford County through Greenhouse Ministries and the mission of Read To Succeed.
The Hunger Games novels have been sweeping through Rutherford County like wildfire the past few months. The young adult novels are among the bestselling fiction in recent years and this year’s One Book choice for the community.
Each year, Read To Succeed’s One Book of Rutherford County program challenges residents to join together to read a chosen book. This year's selection is the bestselling adventure novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. One Book is a collaboration of Read To Succeed, Ingram Content Group, Linebaugh Library, Barnes & Noble, Greenhouse Ministries and United Way to promote reading and literacy in Rutherford County.
For more information on One Book, Read To Succeed, and The Hunger Games, visit readtosucceed.org or call 615-738-READ.
Local Concerts
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Monday 28th: Joelle Maddyson Music at TBD MurfreesboroJoelle Maddyson Music Murfreesboro : TBD on 2012-05-28
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Fri Jun 22nd: MUSTANG SALLY at Miller Colosium MurfreesboroMUSTANG SALLY Murfreesboro : Miller Colosium on 2012-06-22
