Since its launch in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has pushed the boundaries of the music world for listeners with its genre-defying, multi-dimensional programming. The 2025 Festival participants—at least some—have been announced and, once again, the mind boggles at the…
Review: A Provocative and Poignant ‘Knoxville’ at Clarence Brown Theatre
The latest adaptation of Agee’s ‘A Death in the Family’ is the musical ‘Knoxville’ written by the late Frank Galati with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. ‘Knoxville’ opened this past weekend at the University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre sporting superbly polished staging and a uniformly strong cast. The production continues through September 22.
Heads Up! What to See in Knoxville Theatre in September
Clarence Brown Theatre: Knoxville Is Knoxville Broadway bound? We’re talking about the new musical Knoxville, music by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens with a book by the late Frank Galati, that opens at the Clarence Brown Theatre on…
ACE Becomes Amadeus Concert Ensemble and Announces 2024-25 Concerts
To more accurately reflect its evolution, scale, and importance, the Knoxville performance entity previously known as the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble has undergone a name change to become the Amadeus Concert Ensemble. Its thoughtfully presented composer-themed concerts employing notable soloists appearing…
Review Bits: Marble City Opera’s ‘Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites’
Telling someone to “go sing in a cave” sounds like a perfectly delicious fifth grade playground taunt, but, in truth, it is a tactic that seems to be working quite well for Marble City Opera. This past Saturday afternoon found them in Historic Cherokee Caverns off Oak Ridge Highway for “Tenors, Tuxedos, and Stalactites,” a program of mostly operatic nuggets for three local tenors: Cody Boling, Chris Plass, and John Overholt.
Clarence Brown Theatre Brings Musical ‘Knoxville’ to the Stage
It hardly needs saying that the hottest theatre ticket of the year in Knoxville is … Knoxville. The musical Knoxville, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family by Knoxville native son James Agee, opens at the…
Review: ‘Shrek The Musical’ (Touring) at the Tennessee Theatre
A refreshed touring version of ‘Shrek The Musical’ saw a two-performance stop this week in Knoxville at the Tennessee Theatre as part of its “Broadway at the Tennessee Theatre” series.
Marble City Opera Announces Upcoming 2024-25 Season
While not quite a teenager, Marble City Opera has done a lot of living as Knoxville’s chamber opera company. This next season, 2024-25 will be the company’s twelfth since it first trod the boards in 2013. Designed with a mixture…
Saturday: “Rising” – Lawrence Brownlee in Concert at the Tennessee Theatre
World-renowned tenor Lawrence Brownlee will present “Rising,” a concert under the auspices of Knoxville Opera and the National Association of Teachers of Singing, on Saturday evening, June 29, at the Tennessee Theatre. He will be accompanied by pianist Kevin J.…
Review: Marble City Opera Takes Puccini’s ‘Il Tabarro’ On A Marvelous Riparian Journey
Marble City Opera has literally doubled down on its previous outdoor theatre efforts, this time with two performances at two different locations. The chosen work was Puccini’s Il Tabarro (The Cloak) and the chosen locations were those that might suggest a dockside setting on Paris’ River Seine: the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum on the Little Tennessee River in Vonore on Friday and the Melton Lake Park in Oak Ridge on Sunday.
