By Alan Sherrod Horror film screenwriters love images of evil clowns and bank robbers in Halloween masks for the perverse contradictory emotions they present. Indeed, there truly is something universally unsettling about children’s toys snatched from their innocent environment…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 11, 2020
This week’s Arts Miscellany from Arts Knoxville
Preview: Knoxville Opera Celebrates Valentine’s Day With Gounod’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
By Alan Sherrod Inarguably, no writer in history has had a greater influence on subsequent writers and composers than the Bard, William Shakespeare. In classical music and opera alone, the list of works that have been inspired by Shakespeare’s…
Review: Spirits Abound in CBT’s Marvelous ‘Blithe Spirit’
By Alan Sherrod “Anybody can write books, but it takes an artist to make a dry martini that’s dry enough.” —Madame Arcati, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit Pass on the dry martinis like those being served quite generously in Blithe…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 4, 2020
February has arrived—and with it, one of the busiest months on Knoxville’s arts calendar. This week, particularly, is absolutely jammed with openings owing to the presence of the First Friday events. While there may be some painful decisions on what…
Arts Administrator Aaron Greenwald to Join Big Ears Festival as Managing Director
Since its first season in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has continued to find ways to grow and evolve, intriguing new music attendees year after year, and creating a performance gravity that has subsequently grown Knoxville’s art and music scene.…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘Boeing Boeing’ – May The Farce Be With You
By Alan Sherrod Don’t be surprised if you find yourself checking your calendar at Flying Anvil Theatre’s delicious production of Boeing Boeing. Yes, in the real world, the year is 2020 where words like “sexism” and “consensual” fly through…
Review in Brief: Cavani String Quartet Wraps Up Its UT School of Music Residency With Beethoven, Shaw, and Mendelssohn
By Alan Sherrod One would be hard-pressed to find a work that is a greater example of the ideals of chamber music than Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20. At the age of 16 in 1825, the young…
GO! Contemporary Dance Works Presents ‘Unsung Heroes’
It is an ironic fact that war—for all its destructive futility—accelerates social change. When World War II began and men were called into the service, women were called to work in defense plants and for war-related organizations, in addition to…
Tennessee Stage Company Begins 2020 New Play Festival
Performances in Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival begin this weekend and continue into March. The performances fall into three categories: Table Readings, Staged Readings, and World Premieres of Full Productions. Information and Tickets The schedule is: Table Readings Christmas Reunion…
