A Song in the Night

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Chip Arnold
Original Play by Bob and Merrill Farnsworth, Paula Flautt, and Chip Arnold
Music & lyrics by Bob and Merrill Farnsworth.

Storyline: The events around the birth of Joseph and Mary’s first child.

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Vidkid

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Chip Arnold
Book by Chip Arnold and Merrill Farnsworth
Music and lyrics by Bob and Merrill Farnsworth

Storyline: A kid gets so addicted to playing video games he gets sucked into the world of a particularly sinister game and must fight his way out.

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Poster for "Beauty for Ashes"

Beauty For Ashes/Mr. Emmanuel

Poster for “Beauty for Ashes”
Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Chip Arnold
Book by Chip Arnold
Music and lyrics by Bob and Merrill Farnsworth

Storyline: A present-day retelling of the passion of the Christ.

 

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Chip Arnold as Ebenezer Scrooge and Nan Gurley as Ghost of Christmas Past

A Christmas Carol

Chip Arnold as Ebenezer Scrooge and Nan Gurley as Ghost of Christmas Past
Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Paula Flautt
Role: Ebenezer Scrooge

“Bespectacled and dressed for most of the play in a long, white nightshirt and cap neither of which hide his wonderful facial gestures, Chip Arnold gives us a gentle, fur-lined Scrooge. He emphasizes his character’s childishness, investing Scrooge with such youthful qualities as liveliness and spunk.”

Caroline Bartholomew
The Nashville Banner
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Story Theatre

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Chip Arnold

“Totally delightful…a succession of hilarious effects in this delicious evening…”

Clara Hieronymus
The Tennessean
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STC 22302, title page

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Becky Clem
Produced by Chip Arnold

“Lovers, lunatics and poets provided a merry evening for theatre-goers in Nightingale Theatre’s staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare’s comedy opened last night in Johnson Theatre under the pixied direction by Becky Clem that whoops the Bard’s lines into high-spirited, rowdy farce as cheerfully uninhibited as commedia dell’arte.”

Clara Hieronymus
The Tennessean
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Gift of the Magi

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Chip Arnold

“Christmas spirit felt at Belle Meade Mansion. Nightingale Theatre and Belle Meade Mansion have joined hands in a very pleasant kind of Christmas season observance. Guests-stomachs heavy from a traditional Christmas feast…may find Nightingale Theatre’s mirthful production of O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi to be the perfect dessert.”

Clara Hieronymus
The Tennessean
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Snoopy

Nightingale Theatre
Directed by Paula Flautt
Managing Artistic Director: Chip Arnold

 

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