BY ALAN SHERROD Venus in Fur, playwright David Ives’ twist on Leopold Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 erotic novella, opened off-Broadway in 2010 to such success that it moved to Broadway the next year. By 2013, the play had inspired a Roman…
Modern Studio Becoming Holler! Performing Arts Center
By Alan Sherrod Update: Holler! Performing Arts Center, the former Modern Studio, has closed permanently. To say that Knoxville’s local theatre and performing arts scene is evolving is something of an understatement—and the keyword here seems to be “local.”…
Review: Into the Woods with Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Love Talker’
The hypnotic drone of cicadas smoothed over by a warm Appalachian mountain breeze; sun-dappled fields of tall grass that give way to dark, forbidding woods; a simple cabin of rough-hewn boards inhabited by two sisters at the mercy of their…