Hub City Theatre Improv
2025-11-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Carnegie Center For Arts & History, 305 East College Street, Jackson, TN
Make plans to laugh with the Hub City Improv Team! Grab your tickets at hubcitytheatreco.com/tickets and come see them November 28th and 29th at 7pm!

Clara's Tea Party
2025-11-30 12:30 | Carl Perkins Civic Center, 400 South Highland Avenue, Jackson, TN
Ballet Arts is thrilled to continue your favorite holiday tradition, The Nutcracker, November 28-30, at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. Come experience the magic of The Nutcracker with Clara, Mouse Queen, and Sugarplum Fairy as they go on an enchanting adventure on Christmas Eve.
Before entering the Land of Sweets, come and enjoy some delectable treats at Clara’s Tea Party. Party goers will visit with some of their favorite characters from The Nutcracker. Don’t miss the event of the season! Little ones who attend will receive a special gift for their Christmas tree.
A dream comes to life in this delightful holiday fantasy, young Clara receives a beautiful wooden Nutcracker as a Christmas gift from her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer. After her family’s party, Clara falls asleep and then awakes to find the Nutcracker and his soldiers alive and in a glorious battle with the Mouse Queen. The injured Nutcracker transforms into the handsome Nutcracker Prince and leads Clara to the magical Kingdom of the Sweets where she is introduced to the Sugar Plum Fairy and her cavalier, Dancing Snowflakes, Angels, Spanish Chocolate, Gingerbread, Chinese Tea, Russian Peppermint, Arabian Chocolate, German Marzipan and Polichinelles perform concluding with the Waltz of the Flowers. This colorful production, set to the wondrous Tchaikovsky score, will be sure to get you in the spirit of the season and leave you asking, “Was it just a dream?”.

The Nutcracker
2025-11-30 14:00 | Carl Perkins Civic Center, 400 South Highland Avenue, Jackson, TN
Ballet Arts is thrilled to continue your favorite holiday tradition, The Nutcracker, November 28-30 at the Carl Perkins Civic Center. Come experience the magic of The Nutcracker with Clara, Mouse Queen, and Sugarplum Fairy as they go on an enchanting adventure on Christmas Eve.

A dream comes to life in this delightful holiday fantasy, young Clara receives a beautiful wooden Nutcracker as a Christmas gift from her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer. After her family’s party, Clara falls asleep and then awakes to find the Nutcracker and his soldiers alive and in a glorious battle with the Mouse Queen. The injured Nutcracker transforms into the handsome Nutcracker Prince and leads Clara to the magical Kingdom of the Sweets where she is introduced to the Sugar Plum Fairy and her cavalier, Dancing Snowflakes, Angels, Spanish Chocolate, Gingerbread, Chinese Tea, Russian Peppermint, Arabian Chocolate, German Marzipan and Polichinelles perform concluding with the Waltz of the Flowers. This colorful production, set to the wondrous Tchaikovsky score, will be sure to get you in the spirit of the season and leave you asking, “Was it just a dream?”.

Holiday Arts Social
2025-12-04 17:30 | The Ned R. McWherter Cultural Arts Center, 314 East Main Street, Jackson, TN, 38301
Join the Jackson Arts Council on December 4th for their 4th Annual Holiday Arts Social at The Ned Upstairs Gallery! Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, visiting with local artists and arts supporters, and shopping for local art.

ARTISTS: Help support the growth of local arts by donating a small piece of art! Your donation will directly support the continued work of the Jackson Arts Council. Please bring any donated artwork to the Jackson Arts Council office by Nov. 25th! Contact us with any questions you may have!

A Christmas Carol Scrooge
2025-12-05 - 2025-12-07 | The Ned R. McWherter Cultural Arts Center, 314 East Main Street, Jackson, TN, 38301
The Jackson Theatre Guild Presents “A Christmas Carol Scrooge,” December 5-13, 2025.
December 4, Preview Party
December 5-6, Performances at 7:30 pm
December 6, Matinee at 2:00 pm
December 7, Matinee at 2:00 pm
December 11-13, Performance at 7:30 pm
December 12, Matinee at 2:00 pm

First Fridays
2025-12-05 17:00 - 19:30 | Downtown Jackson, 100 East Main Street, Jackson, TN, 38301, United States
Mark your calendars for September 5, October 3, November 7, and December 5. Enjoy live music and family-friendly activities from 5 to 7:30 PM. The Jackson Arts Council Art Walks will take place September through December, featuring incredible works by local artists.

For more information about First Fridays Downtown, visit the link: https://www.downtownjacksontn.com/fridays

Shop late at your favorite downtown spots, browse local art walk vendors, and enjoy food trucks and live music all evening.
This event will happen rain or shine.
If you’re an artist looking to pop-up at the Art Walks, it’s not too late! Registration is open! https://forms.gle/hsp7o1L4orXE475u8

A Christmas Carol Scrooge
2025-12-11 - 2025-12-13 | The Ned R. McWherter Cultural Arts Center, 314 East Main Street, Jackson, TN, 38301
The Jackson Theatre Guild Presents “A Christmas Carol Scrooge,” December 5-13, 2025.
December 4, Preview Party
December 5-7, Performances at 7:30 pm
December 6, Matinee at 2:00 pm
December 11-13, Performance at 7:30 pm
December 12, Matinee at 2:00 pm

'A Christmas Story'
2025-12-12 19:00, 2025-12-13 19:00, 2025-12-14 14:00 | University School of Jackson, 232 McClellan Road, Jackson, TN
The University School of Jackson Fine Arts Department is presenting the classic Christmas production of ‘A Christmas Story.’
Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher, and even Santa Claus himself at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
Show dates and times are –
Friday, December 12, 7 p.m.
Saturday, December 13, 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 14, 2 p.m.
The middle and upper school students will be a part of this play and it is HILARIOUS!
For tickets and additional information visit https://universityschoolofjackson.thundertix.com/events/252885

Jazz Appreciation Featuring Terell Stafford Quartet
2026-04-11 19:30 | The Ned R. McWherter Cultural Arts Center, 314 East Main Street, Jackson, TN, 38301
The Jazz Foundation of West Tennessee celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month April 11th, 7:30 p.m. at the Ned R. McWherter Cultural Arts Center in Jackson, Tennessee with Grammy Award winning trumpet sensation Terell Stafford.

Terell Stafford, acclaimed trumpet player based in New York, has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player, he combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford’s exceptionally expressive and well defined musical talent allows him to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads.

Since the mid-1990’s, Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Frank Wess Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford with the HamiltonClayton Jazz Orchestra, performed on Diana Krall’s GRAMMY nominated From this Moment On (2006). John Clayton invited Stafford to perform with the Clayton Brothers Quintet and Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Stafford is a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and they were awarded a GRAMMY in 2009 for Best Large Ensemble, Live at the Village Vanguard. Stafford can be heard on over 130 albums including his own, BrotherLee Love, Celebrating Lee Morgan, which received a 47th Annual NAACP Image Award nomination. His most recent album, Family Feeling, is a BCM&D release.

Stafford is the Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies at Temple University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet, and Managing and Artistic Director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia (JOP). Stafford is renowned in the jazz world as an educator, performer and leader and has received countless award nominations and accolades. Terell Stafford was born in Miami and raised in Chicago, Illinois and Silver Spring, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Maryland in 1988 and a Masters of Music from Rutgers University in 1993.

For more information visit: thejazzfoundationofwesttennessee.org or call: 731.803.5818.

Fiddler On The Roof
2026-07-10 - 2026-07-18 | TN
The Jackson Theatre Guild Presents, “Fiddler On The Roof,” July 10 – 18, 2026.
More details to follow.

The DaVinci Code
2026-09-17 - 2026-09-20 | TN
The Jackson Theatre Guild Presents, “The DaVinci Code,” September 17-20, 2026.
More details to follow.

Anastasia (Guild Jr.)
2026-09-24 - 2026-09-27 | TN
The Guild Jr, a division of The Jackson Theatre Guild, Presents, “Anastasia,” September 24-27, 2026.
More details to follow.
