Brown County Playhouse
July / August
~ by Amy Huffman Oliver
The Brown County Playhouse in downtown Nashville presents a variety of acts for your entertainment. The historic Playhouse hosted it first“ strawhat” performance in the summer of 1949. The first facility consisted of a barn for the stage and an open-sided tent covering wooden benches. The current building was constructed in 1977 using the original barn wood on the façade.
From then until 2010, the Playhouse hosted four summer stock shows performed by Indiana University students and staff.
Today, in its 76 th year, the Playhouse operates as a non-profit organization filling the comfortable 400-seat theater throughout the year. With professional lighting and sound, it is a venue that can not only host touring tribute bands, but also local musical concerts, a fingerstyle guitar competition, and four community theater performances each year.
To see the full schedule and buy advance tickets, check out browncountyplayhouse. org.
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TRIBUTE BANDS: July 12 The PettyBreakers— tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. July 19 Satisfaction— The International Rolling Stones Show. August 2 Get Poison’ d— tribute to Poison.
REGIONAL ACTS: July 11 Worship Through the Decades— musical journey celebrating the timeless worship classics. July 18 The Brown County Homegrown Showcase— an evening with top local artists The Hammer and The Hatchet, Frank Jones and The Undertones, plus Shelby and Hunter Kelley. July 25 The Late Night Revelators— Indianapolisbased band plays classic Motown, rhythm & blues. COMMUNITY THEATRE: August 15, 16, 22, & 23 at 7:30pm and August 17 at 2:30pm Harvey— a heartwarming comedy by the Playhouse community troupe about the charming but eccentric Elwood P. Dowd, whose best friend happens to be an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey.
ANNUAL MUSICAL EVENTS: July 26 14 th Annual Indiana Fingerstyle Guitar Competition and Concert— acoustic fingerstyle guitarists from around the world compete in the only event of its kind in the Midwest. Top three finalists play at the evening concert with Tim and Myles Thompson.( SEE PAGE 56) August 20 ChamberFest Brown County Bow, Fingers and Feet— four folk musicians play a blend of clog and percussive dancing, clawhammer banjo, fiddle, and guitar.
The schedule for other ChamberFest Brown County performances at other local venues can be viewed at chamberfestbrowncounty. com.( SEE PAGE 70) •
44 Our Brown County • July / August 2025