CTC's Newest Play for Preschool Audiences | Babble Lab
Children's Theatre Company Acting Company member, Autumn Ness, dives into the world of new play development with her most-recent creation, Babble Lab. Autumn Ness is celebrating her 23rd season as a member of the CTC Acting Company and is the recipient of the 2018 TCG Fox Foundation Fellowship, the 2020 MRAC Next Step Fund, and the 2022 MN State Arts Board Creative Support Grant which all supported this project. We sat down with Autumn to hear more about the creation of Babble Lab! To start, what exactly is Babble Lab and what is your role in it? About 10 years ago, I did my...
Theatre for the Very Young with Playwright, Ernie Nolan
Ernie Nolan is the executive artistic director of Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT) and an award-winning director and playwright. Under Ernie's leadership, NCT launched The Snuggery program in 2018 which is an immersive and interactive Theatre for the Very Young (TVY) performance series created especially for children ages 0-5. We are thrilled to welcome 4 new TVY pieces by Ernie Nolan into the PNA catalogue. Nashville Children’s Theatre is home to one of the leading theatre for the very young programs in the country. Why do you find this work important for your community? This work has become so vital to our programming. In addition to...
Meet Rue and Stacey Weingarten
After a hit run Off-Broadway, this little pup is ready for her next new adventure in your hometown! Rescue Rue is now available for licensing! To celebrate, we sat down with creator, Stacey Weingarten, to talk about how this real-life pup became a big-city star of the stage!
Introducing Kate Haderlie and 'A Bad Case of Stripes: The Musical'
"A project this big requires a lot of time and commitment, and it doesn’t all happen at once. I get song ideas in the shower, on the road, during a commercial, on my lunchbreak, even in my dreams! I wake up hours before my kids to slowly, painstakingly put those ideas to music."