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Interpreted in American Sign Language and Open Captioned 

Winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen is “a cultural phenomenon.” (LA Times)

A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have. Evan Hansen is about to get the one thing he’s always wanted: a chance to finally fit in. Dear Evan Hansen is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it. Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere, including The Washington Post who says Dear Evan Hansen is “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theatre history.” The New York Times calls it “a gorgeous musical for anyone with a beating heart.” And NBC Nightly News declares the musical “an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond.” Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award ® winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy ® , Tony ® , Olivier ® and Academy Award ® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land, The Greatest Showman), and direction by four - time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Rent, Next to Normal).

TICKETS can be purchased online with promo code: TPACTICKET, or you may call Rick Forshee in the Box Office - He can be reached directly at 615-782-4065, or you may call the general Box Office line at 615-782-4040.  Please let him know which accessible service you require.

TPAC currently has a health screening entry policy for everyone’s safety.  As we are constantly updating this information, complete up to date details on our health protocols can always be found on our website at www.TPAC.org/PatronHealth.

Other TPAC plays with that are interpreted and Open Captioned include:

Broadway Series:

• Mean Girls – Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• The Prom – Sunday, February 27, 2022.
• Dear Evan Hansen – Sunday, March 6, 2022.
• Summer:  The Donna Summer Musical – Sunday March 27, 2022.
•  What The Constitution Means To Me – Sunday, April 3, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• Come From Away – Sunday, April 24, 2022.
• Oklahoma! – Sunday, May 8, 2022.
• May We All – Sunday, June 12, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC.  It is a world premier musical featuring country music).

 Nashville Repertory Theater:

• Ragtime – Saturday, November 13, 2021 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• A Christmas Story – Saturday, December 11, 2021 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC. Open Caption will not be available).
• School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play – Saturday, February 19, 2022 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC.  Open caption will not be available).
• Mary Poppins – Saturday, May 7, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).

Interpreted in American Sign Language and Open Captioned 
(This production will be in the James K. Polk Theater)

Nashville Repertory Theatre presents the magnificent story of the world’s favorite nanny! Mary Poppins flies into the home of the Banks family where young Jane and Michael are in need of both affection and discipline. With the help of Bert and a colorful cast of London characters, Mary Poppins uses magic, adventure, and a spoonful of sugar to teach the entire Banks family to love each other and their supercalifragilisticexpialidocious lives. With new music and classics from the film, this musical adaptation of Disney’s masterpiece is practically perfect in every way!

TICKETS can be purchased online with promo code: TPACTICKET, or you may call Rick Forshee in the Box Office - He can be reached directly at 615-782-4065, or you may call the general Box Office line at 615-782-4040.  Please let him know which accessible service you require.

TPAC currently has a health screening entry policy for everyone’s safety.  As we are constantly updating this information, complete up to date details on our health protocols can always be found on our website at www.TPAC.org/PatronHealth.

Other TPAC plays with that are interpreted and Open Captioned include:

Broadway Series:

• The Lion King - Sunday, January 9, 2022
• Mean Girls – Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• The Prom – Sunday, February 27, 2022.
• Dear Evan Hansen – Sunday, March 6, 2022.
• Summer:  The Donna Summer Musical – Sunday March 27, 2022.
•  What The Constitution Means To Me – Sunday, April 3, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• Come From Away – Sunday, April 24, 2022.
• Oklahoma! – Sunday, May 8, 2022.
• May We All – Sunday, June 12, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC.  It is a world premier musical featuring country music).

 Nashville Repertory Theater:

• Ragtime – Saturday, November 13, 2021 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• A Christmas Story – Saturday, December 11, 2021 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC. Open Caption will not be available).
• School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play – Saturday, February 19, 2022 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC.  Open caption will not be available).
• Mary Poppins – Saturday, May 7, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).

Interpreted in American Sign Language and Open Captioned 

Direct from Broadway, Mean Girls is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), lyricist Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde) and director Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon).

Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.

New York Magazine cheers, “Mean Girls delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor and joyful inside-jokery.” USA Today says, “We’ll let you in on a little secret, because we’re such good friends: Get Your Tickets Now!”

Tickets can be purchased online with promo code: TPACTICKET, or you may call Rick Forshee in the Box Office - He can be reached directly at 615-782-4065, or you may call the general Box Office line at 615-782-4040.  Please let him know which accessible service you require.

TPAC currently has a health screening entry policy for everyone’s safety.  As we are constantly updating this information, complete up to date details on our health protocols can always be found on our website at www.TPAC.org/PatronHealth.

Other TPAC plays with that are interpreted and Open Captioned include:

Broadway Series:

• Mean Girls – Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• The Prom – Sunday, February 27, 2022.
• Dear Evan Hansen – Sunday, March 6, 2022.
• Summer:  The Donna Summer Musical – Sunday March 27, 2022.
•  What The Constitution Means To Me – Sunday, April 3, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• Come From Away – Sunday, April 24, 2022.
• Oklahoma! – Sunday, May 8, 2022.
• May We All – Sunday, June 12, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC.  It is a world premier musical featuring country music).

 Nashville Repertory Theater:

• Ragtime – Saturday, November 13, 2021 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• A Christmas Story – Saturday, December 11, 2021 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC. Open Caption will not be available).
• School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play – Saturday, February 19, 2022 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC.  Open caption will not be available).
• Mary Poppins – Saturday, May 7, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).

Winner of the 2012 Tony Awards for best score and best choreography, Disney’s “Newsies” is a high-energy explosion of song and dance. Set in New York at the turn of the century, it is the rousing tale of Jack, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teen-aged “newsies,” who dreams of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, the David-versus-Goliath struggle begins, and Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what’s right.

This performance will have CART

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Interpreted in American Sign Language and Open Captioned 

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed. With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits, including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff,” this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.

TICKETS can be purchased online with promo code: TPACTICKET, or you may call Rick Forshee in the Box Office - He can be reached directly at 615-782-4065, or you may call the general Box Office line at 615-782-4040.  Please let him know which accessible service you require.

TPAC currently has a health screening entry policy for everyone’s safety.  As we are constantly updating this information, complete up to date details on our health protocols can always be found on our website at www.TPAC.org/PatronHealth.

Other TPAC plays with that are interpreted and Open Captioned include:

Broadway Series:

• Mean Girls – Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• The Prom – Sunday, February 27, 2022.
• Dear Evan Hansen – Sunday, March 6, 2022.
• Summer:  The Donna Summer Musical – Sunday March 27, 2022.
•  What The Constitution Means To Me – Sunday, April 3, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• Come From Away – Sunday, April 24, 2022.
• Oklahoma! – Sunday, May 8, 2022.
• May We All – Sunday, June 12, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC.  It is a world premier musical featuring country music).

 Nashville Repertory Theater:

• Ragtime – Saturday, November 13, 2021 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• A Christmas Story – Saturday, December 11, 2021 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC. Open Caption will not be available).
• School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play – Saturday, February 19, 2022 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC.  Open caption will not be available).
• Mary Poppins – Saturday, May 7, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).

Interpreted in American Sign Language and Open Captioned 
(This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC)

Direct from Broadway, the 2019 Tony® nominated Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist, What the Constitution Means to Me, by famed writer Heidi Schreck, arrives in Nashville for a strictly limited engagement. This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway last fall before transferring to Broadway where it received two Tony Award® nominations among countless other accolades. See the play The New York Times hails as “not just the best play on Broadway, but also the most important.”

TICKETS can be purchased online with promo code: TPACTICKET, or you may call Rick Forshee in the Box Office - He can be reached directly at 615-782-4065, or you may call the general Box Office line at 615-782-4040.  Please let him know which accessible service you require.

TPAC currently has a health screening entry policy for everyone’s safety.  As we are constantly updating this information, complete up to date details on our health protocols can always be found on our website at www.TPAC.org/PatronHealth.

Other TPAC plays with that are interpreted and Open Captioned include:

Broadway Series:

• The Lion King - Sunday, January 9, 2022
• Mean Girls – Sunday, February 13, 2022.
• The Prom – Sunday, February 27, 2022.
• Dear Evan Hansen – Sunday, March 6, 2022.
• Summer:  The Donna Summer Musical – Sunday March 27, 2022.
•  What The Constitution Means To Me – Sunday, April 3, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• Come From Away – Sunday, April 24, 2022.
• Oklahoma! – Sunday, May 8, 2022.
• May We All – Sunday, June 12, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC.  It is a world premier musical featuring country music).

 Nashville Repertory Theater:

• Ragtime – Saturday, November 13, 2021 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).
• A Christmas Story – Saturday, December 11, 2021 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC. Open Caption will not be available).
• School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play – Saturday, February 19, 2022 (This performance will be in the Johnson Theater at TPAC.  Open caption will not be available).
• Mary Poppins – Saturday, May 7, 2022 (This performance will be in the Polk Theater at TPAC).

Ralphie’s back! Nashville Repertory Theatre presents the ninth annual A Christmas Story, adapted by Philip Grecian, based on the motion picture by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark. Running Nov 25 – Dec 22, this holiday tradition gives fans what they want – a hilarious, interactive winter treat. With a Red Ryder BB Gun, a ballet tribute to an iconic Leg Lamp, gallons of Ovaltine and a child with a bar of Lifebuoy in his mouth; this show more than delivers on its promise of laughs and heart-warming charm. The Bumpus hounds will be waiting for you. 

This performance will be interpreted in American Sign Language.  Tickets for patrons who use ASL and their companions are on hold through December 1, 2017. 

Regular priced tickets start at $45; child tickets are $25 (with the purchase of a regular priced ticket). To purchase seats for the interpreted performance, use the promo code TPACTICKET online at www.tpac.org or at the TPAC box office, 505 Deaderick Street, Nashville.

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center will provide American Sign Language and Open Captioning for the award-winning musical comedy A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder on  Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets for $55 are now on hold in Jackson Hall for patrons who wish to take advantage of this special offer of $20 off.  Please buy your tickets by Friday, January 6 to receive the discount.

As some of you may be aware, TPAC has invested in new assisted listening equipment, including receivers.  If you want to use amplification, you are invited to bring your own headsets to plug into these new receivers, which are on lanyards worn around the neck. You also have the option of using the headsets provided by TPAC.

Winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical, among other honors, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder tells the fast-moving story of the dashing and dastardly Monty Navarro. A distant heir to a family fortune, he sets out to jump the line of succession by eliminating the eight pesky relatives who stand in his way. All the while, Monty has to juggle his mistress, his fiancée, and the constant threat of landing behind bars. Of course, it will all be worth it if he can slay his way to his inheritance… and be done in time for tea.  Part of the fun of the show is that Monty’s eight relatives—both male and female—are all played by the same actor, who sometimes switches characters and costumes in less than 20 seconds offstage. 

Rave reviews of the show include this from a most gentlemanly NPR critic who said he’d “Never laughed so hard at a Broadway musical.” The Chicago Sun Times wrote that the touring production is “irresistible theatrical confection… Designer Alexander Dodge’s stage-within-a-stage set (winningly animated by Aaron Rhyne’s projections) is pure, ever-shifting eye candy of the highest order. And were Lindo Cho’s ravishing costumes put on sale in the lobby, every woman in the audience would buy them.”

Running time is 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.

Again, tickets in the lower orchestra level are $55 each, a $20 discount.  They are on hold through Friday, January 6, for patrons who use ASL and/or open captioning and their companions. Note that facility fees are not charged on purchases at the TPAC Box Office, open Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (providing your promo code at time of purchase). Whatever the method, please buy your tickets by January 6 to take advantage of this special discount offer.

1.      For online purchase, click on this link to go directly to the page to buy tickets at the discount: https://patron.tpac.org/events/detail/gentlemans-guide-2017-tpac
2.      On the “Gentleman’s Guide” page, click on the link in the upper right corner that reads “Have a promo code? Click here.” When prompted, enter the Promo Code TPACTICKET and click on “APPLY.”
3.      Click on “Buy Now” to the right of the show title, “Gentleman’s Guide.”
4.      Click on BUY TICKETS.  On the next screen you will have the option to select “BEST AVAILABLE” or “VIEW BY SECTION” (in purple on the screen) to view  seats eligible for the discount.
Headsets for A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder will be at the accessible services kiosk near the elevator in the Jackson lobby, convenient to the marquee entrance at the corner of 6th Avenue and Deaderick Street.

We hope to see you soon at TPAC!  Below is the list of captioned and interpreted performances at TPAC through our 2016-17 Season.

ASL and Open Captioning at TPAC will be offered for these 2017 Broadway tours at the 1:00 Sunday matinee performance:

A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder – January 29, 2017
The Sound of Music—February 19, 2017
The Bodyguard—March 26, 2017
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time—April 30, 2017
Beautiful—The Carole King Musical—May 28, 2017
Something Rotten!—July 2, 2017

Partnership is having a Movie Night with Deaf & Hard of Hearing in watching A Quiet Place (PG-13: CC) 

Interpreted show at the University of Tennessee's Clarence Brown Theatre.