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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Memphis lost professional theatre when Front Street Theatre folded in the late 1960s; a troupe of young actors pooling rent money brought it back. Playhouse on the Square at 66 South Cooper Street in Overton Square is the flagship of Circuit Playhouse, Inc., the resident professional company founded by Jackie Nichols, and its current 347-seat home opened in January 2010. The lineage starts on 20 November 1969, when the incorporated Circuit Playhouse opened a rock-musical production of The Fanta...