“Flatten the curve” is a phrase we’re hearing a lot in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic—the need to slow the number of new infections and prevent exponential increases that would overwhelm the healthcare system in the short term. The spread…
UPDATE: Knoxville Museum of Art Announces Closing
UPDATE The Knoxville Museum of Art has announced that it will be closed to the public beginning Monday, March 16, 2020, and will remain closed until further notice. All events and programs scheduled through April 1 have been cancelled or…
UPDATE: KSO Drops Plans for Live Broadcast This Thursday
UPDATE The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has dropped plans for a live broadcast of the March Masterworks concert on Thursday, March 19, 2020. “After further investigation and conversations the KSO decided that attempting the live radio broadcast this week on WUOT…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: March 10, 2020
“Let’s wait and see” is the statement we’re hearing a lot these days concerning possible cancellations of events due to the fears of accelerating the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19). Clearly, no one takes those sorts of high-pressure decisions lightly…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘I and You’ – An Exploration of Human Connections
BY ALAN SHERROD “I and this mystery. Here we stand.” Yes, it is a mystery why 17-year old Anthony has shown up in the bedroom of his classmate, Caroline, brandishing a dog-eared copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass…
UT School of Music: Concerto Competition Winners
BY ALAN SHERROD We’ve been feasting on a lot of Beethoven as of late, thanks to the Beethoven250 anniversary events celebrating the composer’s 250th birthday this year. From the UT Symphony Orchestra this season and last, we’ve heard Beethoven’s…
Review: Destiny and Time Collide in ‘Constellations’ at River and Rail Theatre Company
BY ALAN SHERROD Is life a matter of destiny or is it an infinite and seemingly random process of making choices? Not only does playwright Nick Payne make a firm case for the latter in his 70-minute, two character…
UT Alumna Alexandria Shiner Wins In Met Auditions Grand Finals
In Sunday’s Metropolitan Opera National Council (MONC) Grand Finals Concert, UT Alumna Alexandria Shiner emerged as one of five winners in this year’s Grand Finals competition. The soprano, most recently a member of Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program,…
Review: Marble City Opera’s ‘ShadowLight’ – A Stunning Celebration of the Art and Life of Beauford Delaney
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…
