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MTSU freshman stars in "Bring It On: The Musical"

MTSU freshman stars in “Bring It On: The Musical”

Featured photo by Emma Dolberry Story by Luke Cameron  If you want more news like this, sign up for the Sidelines weekly newsletter here! Find it in your inbox every Thursday afternoon. Middle Tennessee...

Volunteer Fair participants brave rainy weather to seek volunteers for their causes. (Photo by Brian Branch)

Volunteer Fair Puts Out the Call To Serve

Matthew Giffin September 8, 2022

Story by Brian Branch | Contributing Writer Tuesday, Sept. 7, the Volunteer Fair kicked off around 10 a.m. in the Middle Tennessee State University commons. The event featured around 12 separate organizations...

Review: 'Heathers: The Musical' provides ‘big fun’ to Murfreesboro community

Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ provides ‘big fun’ to Murfreesboro community

Sidelines September 10, 2018

Photo courtesy of Ashleigh Newnes / The Center for the Arts Story by Caryn Tramel / Contributing Writer Based on the 1988 film, “Heathers: The Musical” at The Center for the Arts in Murfreesboro...

Boro Art Crawl celebrates Chinese New Year with Dragon Dance, Chinese Art

Boro Art Crawl celebrates Chinese New Year with Dragon Dance, Chinese Art

CIM Digital February 10, 2018

Photo and story by Jessica Knoble / Contributing Writer A crowd of curious locals surrounded the Murfreesboro courthouse Friday night, eager to encounter Chinese culture. You guessed it; February's Murfreesboro...

Review: Center for the Arts amps up audience with 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'

Review: Center for the Arts amps up audience with ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’

Sidelines October 17, 2017

Story by Dakota Green / Contributing Writer For many people, it’s practically a Halloween tradition: kick back and get ready to shout back at the screen as you watch one of the most popular cult classic...

Center for the Arts brings 'Carrie the Musical' to Murfreesboro

Center for the Arts brings ‘Carrie the Musical’ to Murfreesboro

Sidelines October 2, 2017

Story by Blake Holliday / Contributing Writer Halloween season is upon us, and the Center for the Arts is preparing a wide variety of festive haunts for Murfreesboro locals.  With the continuation of...

Shiver me timbers: 'Pirates of Penzance' comes to Murfreesboro

Shiver me timbers: ‘Pirates of Penzance’ comes to Murfreesboro

CIM Digital August 17, 2017

Photo by Krystal Loritts / Contributing Writer The comic opera, “Pirates of Penzance,” is the latest production to be featured on the Murfreesboro’s Center for the Arts’ stage. And because of...

'Ragtime The Musical' preaches the importance of equality

‘Ragtime The Musical’ preaches the importance of equality

CIM Digital July 17, 2017

Photo by Rachael Anne Keisling / Contributing Writer Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts latest play "Ragtime The Musical" tells the story of three varying ethnicities whose families oppose one another...

One remake and 41 years later: ‘Rocky Horror’ is a pleasure we just can’t quit

Sidelines November 1, 2016

Photos by JaCarey Hamer / MT Spare By Marissa Gaston / Contributing writer As the annual midnight screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” draw to a close, fans of America’s favorite science-fiction,...

Center for the Arts’ ‘Dreamgirls’ not a dream come true

Sidelines February 16, 2016

By L. N. Harrison // Contributing Writer On the opening night of any show, no matter the venue or scale, allowances must be made for nervous anticipation and for the sheer pressure of it being opening...

Center for the Arts offers special showing of ‘Into the Woods’

Sidelines January 27, 2016

By Matthew Burnette // Contributing Writer The Murfreesboro Center for the Arts is offering a special “pay-what-you-can” discount for Thursday’s 7 p.m. performance of the Sondheim classic Into the...

Center for the Arts delivers magical journey ‘Into the Woods’

Sidelines January 20, 2016

By Julia Larson // Contributing Writer The Murfreesboro Center for the Arts' production of Into The Woods, directed by Renee Robinson, is running through Jan.  31. The show follows the lives of several...

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