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Spotlight Award finalists

Get to know the Spotlight Award finalists

On May 4, the Spotlight Award finalists for Best Actress and Best Actor met for the first time in TPAC’s Johnson Theater. Tiyanna Gentry, Addison McFarlin, […]

2018 Spotlight Awards

And the nominees for the 2018 Spotlight Awards are…

Best Actress and Best Actor finalists for the 2018 Spotlight Awards, featuring students from Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee high schools, include Tiyanna Gentry of Hillsboro High School (Davidson), […]

Bobcat Players kids holding an $10,000 Dare to Dream Rise oversized check

Nashville’s John Overton High School receives NBC ‘R.I.S.E.’ grant

NBC recently announced the 50 schools that will receive their R.I.S.E. grant, giving $10,000 to school theatre departments around the country. Out of over 1,000 schools […]

Support TPAC for the Big Payback May 2, 2018

Support TPAC at May 2 happy hour event

The Big Payback is a community wide 24-hour giving challenge presented by the Community Foundation that raises money and gives awareness to non-profits in the area. […]

Miya Robertson with her students

Miya Robertson named Teacher of the Year for 2018

Miya Robertson, a drama teacher at Gower Elementary School in Nashville, is Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s 2018 Teacher of the Year. Presented each year, the award honors an educator who uses the arts to inspire learning, build community, and foster excellence in teaching.

2018 Spotlight Awards

Students from 26 TN high schools to participate in 2018 Spotlight Awards

Talented students from 26 Tennessee high schools are seizing an opportunity to improve their skills and be recognized for theatrical and musical talent as part of the fifth annual Nashville High School Musical Theater Awards, or Spotlight Awards.

TPAC InsideOut Podcast: Are you listening?

Podcast: ‘Cabaret’ Arts Appetizer

On this Arts Appetizer podcast Richard LeFleur and Anne Marie Snyder from Cabaret alongside country singer JT Hodges discuss everything from what it’s like to be a […]

Teaching artist and teachers engage students

Teaching artists play leading role in creative learning

In a lively preschool classroom in Nashville, children eagerly pick up their pretend paint buckets and use imaginary brushes to paint triangles, circles, and squares in the air. They follow the lead of Holly Cannon-Hesse, one of dozens of teaching artists who play a leading role in TPAC’s educational outreach.