Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Although the KSO offered some performances last spring in front of limited-capacity audiences, the fall season is now here, and with it, an excitement for hearing live music again—albeit with some necessary safety restrictions in place instituted…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: The Outpost Outdoor Series, Knoxville Symphony, Soundwalk at Ijams
The Outpost Born and Raised Productions, known for several music series around town such as Sunset on Central, is now taking a big next-step with a downtown outdoor concert series in September and October adjacent to a building that will…
Ellen Reid’s ‘Soundwalk’ To Launch At Ijams Nature Center on September 8
BY ALAN SHERROD In the last year and a half, the simple act of walking has taken on even more importance, oddly thanks to the scourge of the Covid-19 pandemic that made socially-distanced outdoor exertions one of the few…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: The Fall Season Begins with September’s First Friday
As we anxiously await the residual effects of Ida here in Knoxville, we are similarly on pins and needles over the 2021 Fall Season, trying to balance the essential safety precautions with the need to get on with life in…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Minton Sparks, UT Downtown Gallery, New Venue Entry Requirements
The downtown Knoxville live performance venues—the Tennessee and Bijou Theatres—have announced new entry requirements for audiences attending shows and concerts, effective immediately. If you currently have tickets, or will be purchasing tickets, to a concert in these spaces, you will…
Covid-19 Precautions: Knoxville Venues Update Entry Requirements for the Fall Season
Perhaps avoidable, but now undeniably inevitable, the major downtown Knoxville live performance venues—the Tennessee and Bijou Theatres—have updated their entry requirements to reflect the need and importance of Covid-19 vaccinations in preventing further spread of the virus. Effective immediately, and…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: KMA, Flying Anvil Theatre, et al. Aug 17 – 22
Knoxville Museum of Art Organized by the Mint Museum of Charlotte, North Carolina, and opening at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Friday, August 20, Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum focuses on the art of collage, the assembly of…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: August First Friday Gallery Openings
Mosquitos, heat, and drought, plus a Covid variant surge — all that and August has wrapped us in its warm, sticky embrace. Still, our art and music scene is trying its best to get past the painful hiatus of the…
Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ At Flying Anvil Theatre
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…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: ‘Suttree’s Knoxville’, Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Shakespeare Off the Square
Suttree’s Knoxville: A Hymn to the Past in Film and Music In what promises to be the multi-media event of the summer, if not the year, Big Ears is presenting Suttree’s Knoxville: A Hymn to the Past in Film and…
