Local Events

Playhouse on the Square has teamed up with Opera Memphis to co-produce its season 57 finale, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

The 2026–2027 season marks the 75th season of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra (MSO), beginning with Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony and Mason Bates' Cello Concerto on Saturday, September 19, and Sunday, September 20, and concluding with the Grieg Piano Concerto and Dvořák's 7th Symphony on Sunday, May 22, and Sunday, May 23.

Featured: the monthly Whet Thursdays event at Metal Museum; opening reception for three artist exhibits at Crosstown Arts

Memphis' independent, ever-evolving musical collective, Freeworld, will be performing at the Overton Park Shell on Friday, June 26, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Learn about the Memphis Art Museum's new downtown campus, inaugural exhibitions, and vision for serving the community.

Producers Amy Rush and Courtney Sage discuss the final year of "The 24 Hour Plays: Memphis," where local writers, directors, and actors create and perform six original plays in just 24 hours.

Dixon Gallery & Gardens curator Julie Pierotti discusses "Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855–1914," an exhibition exploring the cafés that shaped artistic and social life in Belle Époque Paris.

The Green Room at Crosstown Concourse continues its highly eclectic concert series with guitarist Marisa Anderson, whom The New Yorker calls "one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation" and whom NPR refers to as "this era's most powerful players."

Featured: "Jaws" screening at Orpheum Theatre; "The Sandlot" screening at Pink Palace

Opera Memphis knows that American music is Memphis music. "I Hear Memphis Singing" invites music fans to enjoy tunes by some of the artists who prove it.