BY ALAN SHERROD One of the greatest challenges of theatre is representing art through music—and music through art. ShadowLight, a new opera from Marble City Opera with music by Larry Delinger and libretto by Emily Anderson, took that challenge…
Review: CBT’s ‘Hamlet’ in Carousel Theatre
BY ALAN SHERROD I t has been more than 80 years since Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre changed a lot of theatrical thinking with their production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a staging that used a contemporary milieu and…
Big Ears 2020 Film Lineup: Rare Experiments from International Auteurs
BIG EARS FESTIVAL 2020 ANNOUNCES FULL FILM LINEUP • Curated by The Public Cinema • • STANDARD DEFINITION, a program of artist cinema from the early digital-video era • Visiting artists JESSICA SARAH RINLAND and LILY KEBER • STEREO VISIONS,…
Review: Violinist Hristova Commands the Price – KSO Fashions an Heroic ‘Eroica’
BY ALAN SHERROD The lobby of the Tennessee Theatre has probably seen every kind of audience response, but the intermission buzz at this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts was a little more animated than usual. Even amidst the…
Preview: Marble City Opera’s ‘ShadowLight’ Explores the Life and Art of Beauford Delaney
BY ALAN SHERROD One of the lamentable ironies of artistic creation is that the age in which one lives and works is not necessarily the age in which one gains widespread acceptance. The perfect example of this is the…
Preview: UT School of Music Presents Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra University of Tennessee Choral Ensembles Soloists: Sarah-Clementine Mire, soprano; Sarah Beegle, contralto; Miles Jenkins, tenor; Logan Campbell, bass-baritone Conductor: James Fellenbaum Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Downtown Knoxville 7:30 PM –…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 18, 2020
The actual 250th Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven is not until December of this year, but that hasn’t stopped a two-year worldwide focus on all things Beethoven. If you’ve been saving up your Beethoven concert-going energy for something really big,…
Review: Knoxville Opera’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’
Roméo et Juliette returned to Knoxville audiences this weekend with the atmospheric Shakespearean reminder intact.
Review in Brief: ‘RAFT’ at Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival
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