Crosstown Theater

Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, a lyricist who has always let her listeners know exactly where she is at a given moment, spent much of 2018 reckoning with these questions and revisiting her roots to look for answers. The result is Saint Cloud, an intimate journey through the places she’s been, filled with the people she’s loved.

Ballet Memphis closes out Season 35 at Crosstown Theater with a show that celebrates the unique Memphis sound. The river, heat, and humidity make the perfect environment to create our music with the right amount of SOUL. You can’t help but dance.

Ballet Memphis will premiere three works from women choreographers, including a new piece from Chanel DaSilva. Performed with music from a live house band, this show will get you moving in your seats.

Ballet Memphis closes out Season 35 at Crosstown Theater with a show that celebrates the unique Memphis sound. The river, heat, and humidity make the perfect environment to create our music with the right amount of SOUL. You can’t help but dance.

Ballet Memphis will premiere three works from women choreographers, including a new piece from Chanel DaSilva. Performed with music from a live house band, this show will get you moving in your seats.

This encore of shorts from the 2021 Indie Memphis Film Festival features films that in their distinct visual languages survey the possibilities of connection through expressions of language. These expressions come through in varying manners: playful exploration of what it means to know but also be distant from your mother tongue, films centered outside of the English language, and how we embody deeper communication outside of our abilities with the spoken word. These highlights of the festival beautifully examine the expansive and the limiting experiences of sharing with another and one’s self.

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Kalena Bovell Conducts Beethoven, with works by Clarice Assad, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Featuring Scott Moore, the Principal Trumpeter of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. 

Third Coast Percussion joins forces with the groundbreaking choreography of Movement Art Is for an intimate, evening-length program that explores the duality of human nature. At once intensely personal and fiercely virtuosic, two disparate styles of street dance blend seamlessly with new music by Jlin and Tyondai Braxton, as well as Third Coast Percussion’s critically-acclaimed arrangements of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia.

Fred Schepisi's internationally-acclaimed 1978 period masterpiece is Australia’s canonical equivalent of 12 YEARS A SLAVE. Visually enthralling and emotionally resonant filmmaking, with a central violent eruption that still shakes audiences to their core.

2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated drummer/composer/producer Nate Smith has announced the release of his inspired new album, Kinfolk 2: See The Birds. The highly anticipated follow up to 2017’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere arrives via Edition Records on Friday, September 17. This special performance features Nate Smith (drums), Fima Ephron (bass), Jaleel Shaw (alto & soprano saxophones), Amma Whatt (vocals), Brad Allen Williams (guitar) with musicians of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.