Franklin
The Franklin Theatre
Theater · 419 Main St, Franklin TN
About This Venue
The Franklin Theatre reopened in 2010 after a $14 million restoration — original auditorium, seated capacity, and a Main Street location that makes the dinner-and-show plan obvious.
The calendar moves between songwriters, legacy acts, film, comedy, and community programming. A quieter, more deliberate night than the Nashville club circuit — which is sometimes exactly what the evening calls for.
Upcoming shows at The Franklin Theatre (110)
Folk / Americana
Fri Aug 28 · 8:00 PM
'Hot August Night' with The Twilight Train: A Neil Diamond Tribute
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Rock
Sun Aug 30 · 3:00 PM
The School of Rock (2003) ft. School of Rock Franklin!
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Rock
Wed Sep 9 · 7:00 PM
The Heart of Rock and Roll: Huey Lewis Tribute Band
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Folk / Americana
Sat Sep 12 · 8:00 PM
The Cyrkle in Concert: The Music, The Stories and The Beatles
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Folk / Americana
Sun Sep 13 · 7:00 PM
Don’t Let That Hold You Back Book Tour with Annie F. Downs
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PickFolk / Americana
Thu Sep 17 · 7:30 PM
The Franklin Theatre Songwriters Series: Clare Bowen, Brandon Young, Ryan Kinder, Justin Halpin, and Cale Dodds
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Five writers, one row of chairs, and no band to blame — the in-the-round format at its most exposed.
Folk / Americana
Sat Sep 19 · 8:00 PM
BoDeans: 40 Years of Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams...and Good Things
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Folk / Americana
Sun Sep 20 · 7:00 PM
Filmmakers in Franklin Presents: Aliens (1986) with Legendary FX Artist John Rosengrant
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Folk / Americana
Thu Sep 24 · 7:00 PM
Beehives & Bombshells: A Tribute to the Women of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s
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Pop
Thu Oct 1 · 3:30 PM
Classic Seger: The Music of Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
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PickPop
Thu Oct 1 · 7:30 PM
Classic Seger: The Music of Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
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A Seger tribute lives or dies on whether the band understands restraint.
Folk / Americana
Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM
FEAR FEST x First Kiss Friday! Twilight (2008)
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Folk / Americana
Fri Oct 16 · 7:30 PM
The Songs of Frank Myers: Songs and Strings
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Folk / Americana
Sat Oct 17 · 11:00 AM
FEAR FEST! Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
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Folk / Americana
Sat Oct 24 · 11:00 AM
FEAR FEST! Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
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Folk / Americana
Sun Oct 25 · 5:00 PM
TERRORTHON! A Mystery Box Double Feature Evening ft. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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Folk / Americana
Sun Nov 1 · 7:30 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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Folk / Americana
Mon Nov 2 · 6:00 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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PickJazz / Blues
Fri Nov 6 · 7:00 PM
Glenn Miller Orchestra
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The Glenn Miller Orchestra has outlived Glenn Miller by eight decades, and the charts still do the work.
Folk / Americana
Fri Nov 13 · 6:00 PM
First Kiss Friday: When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
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PickFolk / Americana
Sat Nov 14 · 6:00 PM
Larry Sparks and The Lonesome Ramblers
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Larry Sparks has one of the most identifiable voices in bluegrass and has never seen a reason to modernize it.
Folk / Americana
Fri Nov 27 · 4:00 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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PickFolk / Americana
Fri Nov 27 · 7:30 PM
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
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The only great Thanksgiving movie, screened the day after Thanksgiving, in a restored theater that makes the case for seeing it with strangers.
PickFolk / Americana
Mon Nov 30 · 6:00 PM
Christmas with the Celts
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Fiddles, whistles, step dancing, and carols routed through Irish tradition, which suits December better than most arrangements do.
PickJazz / Blues
Tue Dec 1 · 7:00 PM
Ryan Middaugh Jazz Orchestra: A Merry Bari Christmas
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Christmas standards played by a full orchestra of horn players who would rather be reading charts than wearing sweaters.
Rock
Wed Dec 2 · 7:00 PM
Rock the Halls: A Christmas Celebration with Rich Jacques and Friends
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Folk / Americana
Sun Dec 6 · 1:00 PM
An Ozzie & Harriett Christmas with the Nelsons
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Folk / Americana
Sun Dec 6 · 8:30 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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Folk / Americana
Sat Dec 12 · 12:00 PM
It's a Wonderful Life (1946): The Wonderful Life of Donna Reed
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Folk / Americana
Sun Dec 13 · 7:00 PM
It's a Wonderful Life (1946): The Wonderful Life of Donna Reed
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PickFolk / Americana
Fri Dec 18 · 11:59 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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Christmas Vacation at 11:59 p.m., which is the only defensible time to watch it with a room full of strangers.
Folk / Americana
Sat Dec 19 · 3:00 PM
Christmas with the King: A Holiday Tribute to Elvis
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PickFolk / Americana
Sat Dec 19 · 7:30 PM
Christmas with the King: A Holiday Tribute to Elvis
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The Elvis Christmas catalog is stranger and better than its reputation, and it lives or dies on whether the band plays it straight.
Folk / Americana
Sun Dec 20 · 3:00 PM
Christmas with the King: A Holiday Tribute to Elvis
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Folk / Americana
Sun Dec 20 · 7:30 PM
Christmas with the King: A Holiday Tribute to Elvis
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PickFolk / Americana
Mon Dec 21 · 7:00 PM
Larry, Steve and Rudy: The Gatlin Brothers Christmas
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Blood harmony is a cliché because it is true, and the Gatlins have been proving it since before most of the room was born.
Folk / Americana
Tue Dec 22 · 7:00 PM
Larry, Steve and Rudy: The Gatlin Brothers Christmas
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Folk / Americana
Tue Dec 22 · 11:59 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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Folk / Americana
Wed Dec 23 · 8:30 PM
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
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PickFolk / Americana
Sat Dec 26 · 11:59 PM
Die Hard (1988)
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The Christmas-movie argument, settled at midnight the day after Christmas, on a real screen.
PickFolk / Americana
Sun Dec 27 · 8:30 PM
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Capra's film is much darker than the reputation it got from decades of television reruns, and a real screen makes that obvious.
