Tennessee Repertory Theatre opens season with premiere of Nate Eppler's Larries
"Tennessee Repertory Theatre is taking the next step in its quest to develop new plays — and it’s a big one. The company will open its 2013-14 season with the world premiere of Nate Eppler’s “Larries,” a piece by Tennessee Rep’s Playwright-in-Residence. It’s the natural progression of fostering new works, following writing workshops and staged readings of plays by area writers, but a bold commitment all the same."
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ArtsNash Reviews SEXTAPE (and Other Stories)
“I know two things,” Coach Hambrick, a retired human reproduction and sexual development teacher and girls’ volleyball coach in Playhouse Nashville’s SEXTAPE (& Other Stories), tells us during one of his appearances in Nate Eppler’s comedic anthology. “One: There is no depth to the things you will put yourself through if you’re in love. And two: turns out everybody’s definition of ‘in love’ is miles different.”True. But how do we bridge those miles? In SEXTAPE the intimacy we seek comes through laughter – even at their most absurd the situations and characters in this wickedly funny show encourage us to tear down the psychological walls that keep others out. Eppler’s tart and tight script contains plenty of moments milked for maximum comic effect, but there’s also loss, longing and heartbreak within this new play’s seven pieces."
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Broadway World Reviews Long Way Down
"It should be noted that at the conclusion of the opening night performance of Nate Eppler's Long Way Down the lights came up and the audience sat completely still. Riveted to their seats by the brilliantly told tale that had just played out before them, audience members quietly processed their thoughts, basking in the afterglow of what was, most certainly and without fear of exaggeration, one of the most important nights Nashville theater has ever seen."
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Evans Donnell Reviews Long Way Down for Stage Critic
"All too often theater, like life, becomes a place where the desire for comfort rules. Human nature makes it understandable, but that desire nevertheless undermines artistic, and social, progress. Nate Eppler’s new play Long Way Down does not fall into that trap. There’s no easy path for actors or audience in 3Ps Productions’ workshop presentation of one of the best plays produced in Nashville during this or any other season in memory."
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