Encore!

Guide to Theatre, Games, Art and Other Good Stuff.

by Suzanne Wood

Free Art Galleries:

Tennessee State Museum
505 Deaderick Street. Phone: 741-2692
Permanent collection includes paintings, quilts, and displays on TN history--with particular emphasis on the Civil War.
Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun.

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
23rd & West End Avenues. Phone: 322-0605
Hours: noon-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri.; 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sat.
Call for hours during holidays.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, has announced that it will quit trying to snatch the Stieglitz Collection back from Fisk University here in Nashville. It includes the famous paintings: Ms. O’Keeffe’s 1927 “Radiator Building — Night, New York” and Marsden Hartley’s 1913 “Painting No. 3. Fisk tried to sell those two paintings for 20 or 30 Gazillion Dollars and save the school with the money and that’s what started this whole kerfluffel. So, go see it before somebody changes their mind.

 http://www.fisk.edu/gallery/galleries_van_vechten.html

1000 Seventeenth Avenue North, Nashville TN 37208 :: 615-329-8720

Only partially free, but really good: The Frist

 This must be photo season in Nashville. Visit The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection. It opened Oct. 10 and will run through Jan. 25, 2009. The exhibition will features more than 200 iconic photographs, films and film-related materials selected from the world-renowned collection of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York.

Other fun things at the Frist:

Thursday, November 20                Photography Lecture Series, Part II:

6:30 pm                                              “Is the Medium the Message?”

Auditorium                                       Free

Saturdays, December 6 and 13     Frist Center Kids Club: Cyanotypes

1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Meet in the Upper-Level Foyer / Free

Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space.

Thursday, December 11                 Photography Lecture Series, Part III:

6:30 p.m.                                            “Civil War Photography”

Auditorium                                       Free

Friday, December 19                       Films at the Frist: Funny Face

(Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn)  

7 p.m.  Auditorium                          Free

Pro Basketball!!!! Nashville’s new ABA team, the Broncs will play home games every Friday in December at the Municipal Auditorium. 417 Fourth Avenue North. They even have their own rap song on the web site. Call 615-823-1086. 

11/28/2008 - 12/20/2008
Tennessee Repertory Theatre Presents
The Santaland Diaries at the Andrew Johnson Theater
Tickets: $11.50 - $41.50
TPAC is at 505 Deaderick Street. Call TPAC for tickets at (615) 255- ARTS or Nashville Opera at (615) 832-5242.

Cheekwood has the The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of Fabergé
through December 31, 2011. The gardens are at 1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville. Call 353-2148 or 356-8000

November 13 - December 31 at Chaffin’s Dinner Theatre

“Murder At The Howard Johnson’s” A light and funny suspense about a love triangle at the HoJo.

November 20 - December 31 at Chaffin’s Dinner Theatre

“GREETINGS” a holiday comedy by Tom Dudzick

8204 Highway 100 Nashville, TN (615) 646-9977

November 14 - December 21, 2008 at The Boiler Room Theatre
Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical
Book, Music & Lyrics by Dan Goggin

Most days at 8pm

$25 adults / $23 seniors and students / $19 children under 12

230 Franklin Road Building Six Franklin, TN : 615-794-7744

Improv Nashville 2907 12th Avenue South

Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 and 10:00 pm

615.418.0905

Nashville Opera at TPAC:

Saturday, November 22 at 8 pm; Sunday, November 23 at 2 pm; and Tuesday, November 25 :: Nashville Opera and Bridgestone Firestone Trust Fund present Sigmund Romberg’s Student Prince. Seats range from $17 to $80

Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 P.M.  Amahl and the Night Visitor and Holiday Concert at TPAC. Orchestra section is $30 and Grand Tier seats are $20.

TPAC is at 505 Deaderick Street. Call TPAC for tickets at (615) 255- ARTS or Nashville Opera at (615) 832-5242.

Through December 15 at the Belcourt Theatre STANLEY KUBRICK RETROSPECTIVE all 13 of the director's feature-length films on 35mm and in the director's intended visual formats. Including one of my favorite films, I don’t know why, DR. STRANGELOVE or: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE  THE BOMB (1964) Sat-Sun, Dec 13-14 @ Noon, Mon, Dec 15 @ 7pm
2102 Belcourt Avenue - Nashville Box Office: (615) 383-9140

November 18, 2008 - January 20, 2009

Nashville Children's Theatre presents

CHARLIE AND THE  CHOCOLATE FACTORY 

25 Middleton St :: 615-254-9103

Tuesday 11/25/2008

Nashville Predators Vs.St. Louis Blues  Sommet Center

6:00 PM  Ticketmaster: 615-770-PUCK (7825), Press Option #1

Other home games :

Sat. Nov. 29 Minnesota 7 p.m.

Thu. Dec. 4 Colorado 7 p.m.

Sat. Dec. 6 Minnesota 7 p.m.

Tue. Dec. 9 Vancouver 7 p.m.

Sat. Dec. 13 Dallas 7 p.m.

Sat. Dec. 20 N.Y. Islanders 7 p.m.

Fri. Dec. 26 Detroit 7 p.m.

Thu. Jan. 1 Vancouver 7 p.m.

Sat. Jan. 3 Calgary 2 p.m.

Dec 6th 10am - 11:30am - Kid's Court! Kids’ stuff at the Belcourt. Holiday films on the big screen - FREE Admission! - Classic shorts, cartoons and holiday fare all on the big screen! Part of the Holiday in the Village Shopping Event, drop in anytime.

12/12/2008 - 12/21/2008
Nashville Ballet Presents

The Nutcracker
Andrew Jackson Hall

In TPAC at 505 Deaderick Street. Call TPAC for tickets at (615) 255- ARTS or Nashville Opera at (615) 832-5242.

If you have a comment or if you’d like to see an event featured here, e-mail Suzanne@cityatnightmagazine.com. I do not guarantee the inclusion of any submission.