# Darkhorse Theater

Darkhorse Theater is a performing arts venue in Nashville, Tennessee, which hosts performances across different disciplines, including theater, music, and dance. Formerly a Presbyterian church, the facility seats 136 people.

## History

Darkhorse Theater was established in 1989 by three couples: Shannon Wood and Peter Kurland, Myke Mueller and Mary Jane Harvill, and Denice Hicks and Bruce Arntson. Darkhorse Theater combines professional, incubator, and community theaters with eight member companies: ACT I, Sista Style, Destiny Theatre Experience, Actor's Bridge, KB Productions, Tennessee Playwrights Studio, Music City Theatre, and Humanity Theatre Project.
It merged with the Nashville Shakespeare Festival and produced the main stage season at Darkhorse Theater, and Shakespeare in Centennial Park. When Darkhorse Theater and the Nashville Shakespeare Festival restructured in 1995, Shannon and Peter continued to run the Theater.

### Production history

2015 Broken Boys, Destiny Theatre Experience 2015 Daddy's Dying, Act 1 2015 For Colored Girls, SistaStyle 2015, Cultural Millennium, Dream 7 2015 Fifth of July, Act 1 2015 Extremities, KB Productions 2015 GRRRL's Night Out, Actors Bridge 2015 Cupidlicious, Real Life Players 2015 Take Me Out, Act 1 2015 Starlite Waltz, Groundworks 2015 Dog Sees God, Act 1 2015 2 South, Dream 7 2015 Ten Minute Plays, Rebekah Durham 2015 Trailer Trash Housewife, KB Productions 2015 Del Shores, Del Shores Productions 2015 Umbrella, New Modern Songs 2015 Husted Dance, Husted Dance 2015 Last Five Years, VWA Theatricals 2015 Face of Emmett Till, SistaStyle 2015 Music City Burlesque, Music City Burlesque 2015 Dreams Within a Dream 2, Dream 7 2015 Mandela, Darryl Van Leer 2015 Deathtrap, Act 1 2015 Stereo-type, Destiny Theatre Experience 2015 August: Osage County, Act 1 2016 The Flu Season, Act I 2016 Lysistrata, Act I 2016 Ten Minute Playground, TMPG 2016 4000 Miles, Music City Theatre Company 2016 Go From Here 2016 Coffeehouse, Darkhorse 2016 Come Back to the Five and Dime, Act I 2016 Trapped, Planned Parenthood 2016 Psycho Beach Party, Music City Theatre Company 2016 The Complete Word of God, Distraction Theater 2016 November, KB Productions 2016 Husted Dance, Husted Dance 2016 143, Destiny Theatre Experience 2016, Fringe Festival, Actors Bridge 2016 The World's a Stage, Jim Manning 2016 HUEmanity, Destiny Theatre Experience 2016, Shades of Black Festival, Shades of Black 2016 Arsenic and Old Lace, Act I 2016 PG13 Players 2016 Failure: A Love Story, Actors Bridge 2016 A Lie of the Mind, Act I 2016 Christmas Carol, SistaStyle 2017 Month of Outrage, Darkhorse and Actors Bridge 2017 Ten Minute Playground, TMPG 2017 Detroit 67, Actors Bridge 2017 Angels in America, Act I 2017 Yellow Man, Destiny Theatre Experience 2017 Crazy All These Years, Woodland 2017 Noises Off, Act I 2017 Goblin Market, Cabus/Jewell 2017 Reefer Madness, Act I 2017 Waters Edge, KB Productions 2017 Husted Dance, Husted Dance 2017 Motherfucker With The Hat, Destiny Theatre Experience 2017 Fringe Festival, Actors Bridge 2017 The Drowning Girls, Distraction 2017 Louie and Ophelia, SistaStyle 2017 Come Go With Me, Michael McClendon 2017 Sunset Baby, Kennie Playhouse Theatre 2017 Chasing Jeremy, SistaStyle 2017 Essays, Dream 7 2017 No Child, Destiny Theatre Experience 2017 Battered Not Broken, Berg and Rawlings 2017 Love Loss and What I Wore, Act I 2017 Snatched, Loree Gold and Darkhorse 2017 The Curious Picnic, Theatre Craft 2017 Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Act I 2017 Dolly's Wrap O Rama, Theatre Craft 2017 Christmas Bae, SistaStyle 2018 Sunset Baby, Kennie Playhouse Theatre 2018 Stick Fly, Destiny Theatre Experience 2018 Chasing Jeremy, SistaStyle 2018 Pillowman, Act I 2018 Pill Hill, Destiny Theatre Experience 2018 Almost Maine, Chaffins Barn 2018 Little Foxes, Act I 2018 Six Characters in Search of a Play, KB Productions and Darkhorse 2018 Measure For Measure, Act I 2018 The D, Destiny Theatre Experience 2018 Cry It Out, SistaStyle 2018 Shades of Black Festival, Shades of Black 2018 A Bella Noir, Patriq James 2018 Comedy Showcase, Renard Hirsch 2018 Shackled Feet, Shades of Black 2018 Terence Cirvant French, Shades of Black 2018 Hidden Voice, Shades of Black 2018 Stupid Fucking Bird, Act I 2018 Building The Wall, Darkhorse 2018 PG13 Players 2018 It Cant Happen Here, Humanity Theatre Project 2018 Fan Me With a Brick, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2018 The Odd Evangelical, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2018 NEC COMPUNCTI, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2018 Black and Blue, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2018 The Wolves, Actors Bridge 2018 Kingdom, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2018 Holiday Bae, SistaStyle 2019 The Romancers, Act I 2019 Steal Away, SistaStyle 2019 Bomb-itty of Errors, Act I 2019 Sweat, Humanity Theatre Project 2019 Nowhere Next to Normal, Destiny Theatre Experience 2019 Jack and the Giant, Act I 2019 Writers in Conversation, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum 2019 A Million Breaths, Sarkaut Taro 2019 Violent Delights, Act I 2019 Roe, Humanity Theatre Project 2019 Act Like a GRRRL, Actors Bridge 2019 Maidens, Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2019 23/1, Destiny Theatre Experience 2019 Papa Was, Destiny Theatre Experience 2019 Writers in Conversation, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum 2019 Fringe Festival, Actors Bridge 2019 Holding The Man, KB Productions 2019 Writers in Conversation, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum 2019 Shades of Black Festival, Shades of Black 2019 Anthology, Dream 7 2019 SistaSpeak, SistaStyle 2019 Shackled Feet, Shades of Black 2019 Papa Was, Destiny Theatre Experience 2019 Nightmarium Incident, Act I 2019 PG13 Players 2019 Writers in Conversation, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum 2019 Distracted, Act I 2019 The Last Season, Kennie Playhouse Theatre 2019 One Last Song for Christmas, SistaStyle 2020 24 Hour Theater Project, Music City Theatre Company 2020 O The Lies We've Told, Act I 2020 Rosa and Leo, Act I 2020 The Ties That Bind, Act I 2020 The Interview, Act I 2020 Strumento, Act I 2020 The Waiting Room, Act I 2020 Thump in the Night, Act I 2020 Untethered, Act I 2020 The Dictators Daughter, Act I 2020 Boos Black History Blues, SistaStyle 2020 Six Triple-Eight, SistaStyle 2020 Who Will Sing For Lena, SistaStyle 2020 Keely and Due, Act I

## Resident Theaters

Darkhorse resident performing groups include ACT I, Sista Style, Destiny Theatre Experience, Actor's Bridge, KB Productions, Tennessee Playwrights Studio, Music City Theater, Humanity Theatre Project, Dream 7 and Kennie Playhouse Theatre.

## Additional Theater Companies

Many theater companies have performed at Darkhorse Theater:
* The Nashville Shakespeare Festival
* Groundworks
* Mockingbird Public Theatre
* The Eggplant Fairy Players
* The Real Life Players
* Tennessee Repertory Theatre
* Bad Egg Productions
* Theatre of Dreams
* Willful Women
* Carpetbag Theatre
* Wood and Strings Puppet Theater
* PG13 Player
* Spontaneous Combustion
* Western Eyes Productions
* Blue Moves
* Global Education Center
* Theatre Craft
* Green Room
* People's Branch Theatre
* Rhubarb Theatre
* Circle Players
* John Holleman
* Music City Burlesque
* Minton Sparks
* Shining Light
* Collards and Caviar
* Village Cultural Arts
* USN Theatre Guild
* Husted Dance
* Del Shores Productions
* Distraction
* Chaffins Barn