The Best Blacktresses - The 1990s: Angela Bassett’s breakthrough, Oscar-nominated role as Tina Turner in 'What’s Love Got to Do With It' established her as the top Black actress of the decade, even as parts afterwards were rarely worthy of her talents.
Now onstage at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Theatre, through Sunday, February 18, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical gives the full biographical jukebox musical treatment to one of Tennessee’s most talented exports and favorite daughters, with a collection of her greatest musical hits and an incisive book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall (also one of the Volunteer State’s favorite daughters; she’s from Memphis!) that clearly elevates the material and distinguishes Tina from all the other recent musicals of its ilk.
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The documentary ‘Remembering Tina Turner’ barely scratches the surface of the queen of rock. A previous film, ‘Tina,’ is much more ambitious, as befits a star who overcame enormous obstacles
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