Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Since 1980, the nonprofit Tennessee Performing Arts Center has welcomed more than 14 million audience members and served more than 1.8 million children and adults with performances at TPAC, teacher resources, professional development opportunities, classroom residencies, and enrichment programs. TPAC manages four venues, including Andrew Jackson Hall, James K. Polk Theater, Andrew Johnson Theater, and War Memorial Auditorium, the storied music venue located across 6th Avenue. Each year, TPAC serves several hundred thousand audience members with the HCA/TriStar Health Broadway at TPAC series, a variety of special engagements, and the productions of three resident artistic companies – Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, and Nashville Repertory Theatre. For more information, visit TPAC.org.www.tpac.org
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Oct 16, 2026
Chris HandHOST
Wednesday night, uh, Kennedy and Virginia went with a couple friends to see...
Chris HandHOST
I think they saw The Sound of Music at TPAC, and they went to this big fancy restaurant, Jeff Ruby's Downtown.
JoanHOST
Okay.
Chris HandHOST
And my, [laughs] my wife is like...
Tom PriceHOST
Welcome back to Southern Middle Tennessee Today and our final story.
Tom PriceHOST
The Magic of Harry Potter is coming to Nashville as Tennessee Performing Arts Center, or TPAC, welcomes the touring production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for a limited two-week engagement April 27th through May 9th.
Tom PriceHOST
Individual tickets for the Nashville premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning production will go on sale today, Friday, October 16th at 10 a.m. at TPAC.org. Based on the original story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child brings audiences back to the wizarding world.
Tom PriceHOST
The production continues Harry Potter's story years after his adventures at Hogwarts, following a new generation of witches and wizards as they navigate friendship, family, and the challenges of living up to a legendary name.
Brian KardellHOST
Just figure it out, [chuckles] you know? Like, um, so fixing those problems I think, again, like kind of meeting developers where they are, making it harder to screw it up, and paying attention to things like accessibility where, um...
Brian KardellHOST
I, I mean, I'll just mention we're gonna be doing a, a show live from TPAC this year with a panel, and part of the stuff that we wanna talk about is this sort of like, um, where our ideals meet reality, right? Like, uh-
Eric MeyerHOST
Mm-hmm
Brian KardellHOST
... everybody says this stuff is really important.
Keith BilbreyHOST
Right, right.
Steve HallGUEST
We came to Nashville at Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
Steve HallGUEST
And a promotion lady took me down to Ralph Emery's morning show.
Keith BilbreyHOST
[laughs]
AmandaHOST
And I, you can't tell me jack shit when I volunteer at my tour house in Nashville at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
AmandaHOST
I wear a little name badge that doesn't even have my name on it, dog.
AmandaHOST
It just says, I'm a volunteer, how can I help? And you know what I get to do? Stand in the lobby and say, welcome to TPAC, and wait for someone to start looking at the three theaters, and I say, can I help you find something? Yes.
AmandaHOST
And they go, yeah.
AmandaHOST
Like, on Friday, there was a ballet in Polk, or no, in...
AmandaHOST
And I get to see the MFing show for free.
EliHOST
Yeah.
AmandaHOST
After I've just stood in the lobby and said, welcome to TPAC, can I help you find something? Are you fucking kidding me? Sometimes when I'm living it up, I'm in the lobby giving out programs.
Brooke FlanaganGUEST
And so I think that there was a There was a grit and a sense of resilience that I was trying to cultivate within myself that she married with that project that was very personal to her.
Brooke FlanaganGUEST
That was an honor for me to partner with her and also to really understand for the first time I had acted, as I mentioned, since I was very young on stages both in schools and professionally at Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
Brooke FlanaganGUEST
And that was the first time that really I started to understand what it meant to look out into the audience and to think about how the stories that we were sharing on stage could go further to catalyze conversation and engagement and really sit at the table as a tool for mutual understanding and societal growth.
Brooke FlanaganGUEST
And it was really formative in terms of how I've moved through the world as an arts administrator.
Jamie HollinHOST
could just move.
Jamie HollinHOST
TPAC is moving.
Jamie HollinHOST
Because that building is never going to be solved.
Jamie HollinHOST
That problem is never going to be solved.
Catherine Mary StewartGUEST
I mean-
Chris AdamsHOST
I mean, Nashville, yeah, there's Perform, Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville.
Chris AdamsHOST
They do that kind of stuff, so-
Catherine Mary StewartGUEST
Right
Jim McCarthyHOST
I don't know if they're coming out to Tennessee.
Jim McCarthyHOST
They've been out here a couple of times to TPAC.
Lyndsey McDonaldGUEST
Okay.
Lyndsey McDonaldGUEST
And it
Douglas Waterbury-TiemanGUEST
I think they really want to.
Douglas Waterbury-TiemanGUEST
I've had some great conversations with TPAC and also Visit Music City.
Douglas Waterbury-TiemanGUEST
So there is certainly interest.
Douglas Waterbury-TiemanGUEST
It's just a matter of delivering on those promises.
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