A few things to plan on this week— • The Carpetbag Theatre presents Ce Nitram Sacul at the Flying Anvil Theatre, Thursday – Saturday, September 13-15, at 7:30 PM; Sunday, September 16, at 4:00 PM Tickets and Information “…a play about…
Review: Hammer Ensemble’s ‘Lockdown’ – Gun Violence as a Symptom of Cultural Division
By Alan Sherrod At the beginning of the Hammer Ensemble’s Lockdown at the Flying Anvil Theatre, the ensemble of seven actors don metaphorical animal skins and masks suggesting early human beings, then depict a struggle for intercultural power in…
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 3
The fall arts season has traditionally started with Labor Day, so here we are. This week, add in First Friday and you have a wide range of enlightenments and diversions. Here are a few highlights. THEATRE The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
Review: CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’ – The Best of Dazzling Possibilities
By Alan Sherrod For the last year or so, productions of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta Candide have been popping up all over the globe, from Europe to South America, thanks in large part to the encouragement and celebration surrounding…
Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27
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…
Preview: Collaboration Key To CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’
By Alan Sherrod It’s a bit ironic that Voltaire’s Candide, a novella that satirizes the 18th Century philosophy of optimism and its inevitable disillusionment, has required plenty of optimism and perseverance from those that have sought to turn it…
Arts & Culture Alliance Announces 9th Year of Penny4Arts
Exposure to the arts in childhood should not be a luxury, for its potential to inspire and educate is incalculable. That ideal is the basis for Penny4Arts, a program of the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville and organizations…
Review: Comic Irony Comes Into Sharp Focus in Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘8 x 10’
By Alan Sherrod With apologies to Henry David Thoreau — do people lead lives of quiet comic desperation? That seems to be the vastly entertaining and charming statement of Flying Anvil Theatre’s current production, 8 x 10, a collection of…
UT’s ‘7 Days in America’ Selected for 2018 Immigration Film Festival
Documentary storytelling with the aim of providing non-profit organizations with the materials to raise awareness and funds has been the stated mission of Land Grant Films, a creation of Associate Professor Nick Geidner and UT’s School of Journalism and Electronic…
Nief-Norf Summer Festival: Tonight, ‘Hypercube’ – Tomorrow, Marathon Finale
The Nief-Norf Summer Festival for 2018 is now in the finale stage following two weeks of contemporary music exploration for its fellows and audiences. The anticipated and highly recommended Marathon finale concert is on Sunday from 3 PM till 10…
