One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a few more days. All will be different next week—patches of urban concrete and suburban grass, accustomed to basking in the early morning sun, may find themselves with less to warm them. However, this is the cue for the art and music scene to heat up.
The production of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta Candide, a joint production of the Clarence Brown Theatre and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, opens this Friday, August 31, after preview performances on Wednesday and Thursday. The show runs through September 16. Information here.
Read my Arts Knoxville preview here.
Also opening this Friday and running through September 16 is Four Old Broads by Leslie Kimbell at Theatre Knoxville Downtown. TKD is at 319 North Gay Street. Information and tickets.
This is the last week for the current shows at the Emporium Center,100 S. Gay Street:
• Works by Sergio Martinez Avila and Iván Soto Hernández
• Specimens of Steam: Artifacts and Images of Another Reality (works by Eric Holstine, Jason Edwards, Jason Lambert, and Eriel Scott)
• Confluence: Raku Pottery by Rex Redd
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer runs at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Thursdays through Sundays, through September 2.
Julie Armbruster’s show “Opposite Day” hangs at the Downtown Knoxville Tomato Head through Sunday, August 2, then moves to the West Knoxville location through October 1.
“… it’s a wild ride of color, character, and composition that grabs the eye and then runs into the imagination. The work bursts with color and life and is inhabited by a cast of characters that are simultaneously alluring and suspect.”
Continuing…
“Joseph Delaney: On the Move” at the Knoxville Museum of Art (August 17-November 8), Free (check back for the Arts Knoxville review to come)
Exhibition at TVUUC through October 11: Photography and Prints by Gary Heatherly and Althea Murphy-Price
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919. Gallery hours: M-Th 10-5, Su 10-1. Information: 865-523-4176
Central Cinema (1205 N. Central in Happy Holler) is up and running, offering a retrospective view of cinema unavailable anywhere else in Knoxville. This week’s films include Return to Oz, Ms. 45, Clueless, and What Keeps You Alive.
