Every theater in town rolled out its fall season announcement on its own calendar, its own Instagram, its own box-office site. We cross-checked every one of them so you don't have to.
Here's every theater, performing-arts center, college stage and company in the Memphis metro with a Fall 2026 (and Winter 2026-27, where it's posted) schedule, organized by neighborhood.
Last updated September 2026. A project of 901 Today, Memphis's free daily newsletter.
🏙️ Downtown Memphis
🎟️ Orpheum Theatre Memphis
📍 203 S. Main St, Memphis · 🎟️ orpheum-memphis.com
Memphis's 1928 movie-palace-turned-Broadway-house. The rest of the 2026-27 touring season:
Spamalot — Oct 27–Nov 1, 2026
The Great Gatsby — Dec 1–6, 2026
Shucked — Jan 16–17, 2027
BOOP!® The Musical — Jan 26–31, 2027
Hell's Kitchen — Mar 16–21, 2027
STOMP — Apr 2–3, 2027
Beetlejuice — Apr 23–25, 2027
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — Jun 29–Jul 4, 2027
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical — Jul 13–18, 2027
Ballet Memphis's Nutcracker also plays here every December (see Symphony, Opera & Dance below).
🎓 Halloran Centre for the Performing Arts & Education
📍 225 S. Main St, Memphis · 🎟️ orpheum-memphis.com/halloran-centre
The Orpheum's smaller sister venue, mixing theater, music and comedy.
Back to the 90s: A Soulful Murder Mystery Experience — Oct 4, 2026
The Heart & Soul of Magic — Oct 17, 2026
The Orchestra Unplugged: The Planets (Memphis Symphony) — Oct 30, 2026
Memphis Songwriters Series — Nov 19, 2026
🎶 Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
📍 255 N. Main St, Memphis · 🎟️ thecannoncenter.com
Home base for Memphis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Memphis's biggest productions.
Pure Prairie League — Oct 30, 2026
Aaron Lewis — Nov 12, 2026
Little Feat — Nov 19, 2026
Collage Dance Collective: Rise — Feb 20–21, 2027
🎭 Overton Square — Memphis's Theater District
Playhouse on the Square
📍 66 S. Cooper St, Memphis · 🎟️ playhouseonthesquare.org
The city's flagship professional resident theatre — Season 58:
Mean Girls the Musical — Aug 21–Sep 13, 2026
Disney's Frozen — Nov 13–Dec 20, 2026
Ain't Too Proud — Mar 26–Apr 18, 2027
Les Misérables — May 28–Jun 27, 2027
Circuit Playhouse
📍 51 S. Cooper St, Memphis (sister venue to Playhouse on the Square, same organization) — Season 58:
An Enemy of the People — Sep 11–Oct 4, 2026
The Night Shift Before Christmas — Nov 20–Dec 20, 2026
Purpose — Feb 19–Mar 14, 2027
The Shark is Broken — May 7–30, 2027
Hattiloo Theatre
📍 37 S. Cooper St, Memphis · 🎟️ hattiloo.org
One of only three free-standing Black repertory theaters in the U.S. — Season 20:
Speak, Salvation, Speak — Aug 13–Sep 6, 2026
From Footlights to Spotlights: Black Theatre's Path — Sep 22, 2026
Bridging Worlds: An International Black Theatre Festival — Oct–Nov 2026
Poverty Slaps, But We Slap Back Harder — Oct 2–11, 2026
Death Road — Oct 16–25, 2026
Amaxelegu — Oct 30–Nov 8, 2026
Elf the Musical Jr. — Nov 20–Dec 6, 2026
Black Nativity: O Sifuni Mungu — Dec 11–13, 2026
The Colored Museum — Feb 12–Mar 7, 2027
Simply Simone — Apr 9–May 2, 2027
Macbeth is a Mane — May 14–Jun 13, 2027
🌳 East Memphis & Midtown
Theatre Memphis
📍 630 Perkins Extended, Memphis · 🎟️ theatrememphis.org
Founded in 1920 — one of the oldest continuously operating community theaters in the U.S., running two stages (Lohrey Theatre and Next Stage) under one roof.
The Music Man (Lohrey) — Aug 14–Sep 6, 2026
Twelfth Night (Next Stage) — Sep 18–Oct 4, 2026
Million Dollar Quartet (Lohrey) — Oct 16–Nov 7, 2026
Byhalia, Mississippi (Next Stage) — Nov 11–22, 2026
A Christmas Carol (Lohrey) — Dec 4–23, 2026
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (Next Stage) — Jan 29–Feb 14, 2027
Fiddler on the Roof (Lohrey) — Feb 26–Mar 21, 2027
Toni Stone (Next Stage) — Apr 2–18, 2027
The Odd Couple (Lohrey) — Apr 23–May 9, 2027
A Chorus Line (Lohrey) — Jun 4–27, 2027
Buckman Performing Arts Center
📍 60 Perkins Ext, Memphis (St. Mary's Episcopal School) · 🎟️ buckmanartscenter.com
Touring professional acts, open to the public.
BoDeans — Sep 18, 2026 ($45)
Lightwire Theater — Sep 27, 2026 ($45)
Urban Bush Women — Oct 23, 2026 ($40)
🏘️ The Suburbs
Germantown Performing Arts Centre (GPAC)
📍 1801 Exeter Rd, Germantown · 🎟️ gpacweb.com
Music, dance and comedy in Germantown's Highland Capital Performance Hall.
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder — Sep 12, 2026
Mavis Staples — Oct 17, 2026
The Robert Cray Band — Oct 24, 2026
Terence Blanchard: Miles + Coltrane Centennial — Nov 7, 2026
The Best of The Second City — Nov 14, 2026
New Ballet Ensemble: NutRemix — Nov 21–22, 2026
Darren Criss — Dec 5, 2026
Count Basie Orchestra — Jan 9, 2027
Step Afrika!: Evolution Tour — Jan 31–Feb 1, 2027
Opera Memphis: The Pirates of Penzance — Feb 12–14, 2027
Samara Joy — Mar 4, 2027
Germantown Community Theatre
📍 3037 Forest Hill-Irene Rd, Germantown · 🎟️ gctcomeplay.org
🚨 Season 55 (2026-27) hadn't posted specific titles or dates as of publication — check gctcomeplay.org.
Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center
📍 Bartlett, TN · 🎟️ bpacc.org
Now in its 27th season.
🚨 The Fall 2026 lineup hadn't posted as of publication (the site was still showing 2025-26 dates) — check bpacc.org.
Harrell Performing Arts Theatre (Collierville Arts Council)
📍 440 W. Powell Rd, Collierville · 🎟️ colliervilleartscouncil.freshtix.com
The Sound of Music — Sep 20 ($20–25)
🚨 The 2026-27 season hadn't been announced as of publication — check the Collierville Arts Council's site.
Heindl Center for the Performing Arts
📍 4975 Highway 51 N, Senatobia, MS (Northwest Mississippi Community College) — a touring concert series presented by the college foundation, worth the drive from DeSoto County:
Four Tops — Sep 9, 2026
Lonestar — Sep 25, 2026
Micky Dolenz — Nov 15, 2026
Celtic Woman: Silver Bells Tour — Dec 15, 2026
🎓 Colleges & Universities
University of Memphis — Department of Theatre and Dance
📍 University of Memphis campus · 🎟️ memphis.edu/theatre
Clown Bar — Sep 24–27, 2026
Rent — Oct 29–Nov 1, 2026
Continuum (faculty/guest-artist dance concert) — Nov 20–22, 2026
Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really — Feb 18–21, 2027
Emerge: New Student Dance Works — Mar 26–27, 2027
Titanic — Apr 22–25, 2027
University of Memphis — Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music (Opera)
📍 Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center, University of Memphis
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) — Nov 20 & 22, 2026
🎻 Symphony, Opera & Dance
Memphis Symphony Orchestra
🎟️ memphissymphony.org — performs mainly at the Cannon Center and Scheidt Family PAC. 75th season, led by music director Robert Moody:
Tchaikovsky's 4th — Sep 19 (Cannon Center) / Sep 20 (Scheidt), 2026
Dona Nobis Pacem: Grant Us Peace — Oct 10–11, 2026 (Scheidt)
Rigoletto in Concert (with Opera Memphis) — Oct 24, 2026 (Cannon Center)
Orchestra Unplugged: The Planets — Oct 30, 2026 (Halloran Centre)
Home Alone in Concert — Nov 28, 2026 (Orpheum)
Magic of Memphis (holiday pops) — Dec 5–6, 2026 (Cannon Center)
Handel's Messiah — Dec 21–23, 2026 (Lindenwood Christian, Germantown UMC, St. Paul UMC)
Orchestra Unplugged: Maestro Demystified — Jan 21, 2027 (Halloran Centre)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 — Jan 30 (Cannon Center) / Jan 31 (Scheidt), 2027
Opera Memphis
🎟️ operamemphis.org — 70th anniversary season:
30 Days of Opera — free pop-ups citywide, Sep 1–30, 2026
70th Anniversary Celebration — Oct 10, 2026 (Overton Park Shell)
Rigoletto — Oct 24, 2026 (Cannon Center, with MSO)
Opera Goes to Broadway — Nov 14, 2026
Christmas Fiesta (with Cazateatro) — Dec 12, 2026 (Dixon Gallery and Gardens)
The Pirates of Penzance — Feb 12–14, 2027 (GPAC)
Voices of Tomorrow — Mar 20, 2027
The Secret Gardener — Apr 10, 11 & 17, 2027 (Dixon Gallery and Gardens)
Ballet Memphis
🎟️ balletmemphis.org — Season 40 also includes Dance in 30, Memphis Sounds, Winter Mix: Celebration and Peter Pan (dates TBA).
The Nutcracker — Dec 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20, 2026 (Orpheum Theatre)
New Ballet Ensemble & School
NutRemix (Memphis Jookin meets The Nutcracker) — Nov 21–22, 2026 (GPAC)
Collage Dance Collective
🎟️ collagedance.org — Season 17, featuring choreography from Darrell Grand Moultrie, Crystal Pite and Donald Byrd:
ORIGINS — Oct 23–25, 2026 (Playhouse on the Square)
Amazing Grace — Dec 19–20, 2026 (Crosstown Theatre)
RISE — Feb 19–21, 2027 (Cannon Center)
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