The current Clarence Brown Theatre production of ‘The Giver’ which opened last week, is a stage adaptation by Eric Coble that was commissioned and premiered by the Oregon Children’s Theatre in 2006.
Review: Knoxville Opera’s ‘La Traviata’
BY ALAN SHERROD Whether drawn by the popular classic tale of doomed love, by the score that is inescapably evocative, or merely by the opportunity for a romantic date night out, the audience for Knoxville Opera and its production…
This Week: Knoxville Opera Returns To Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’
Knoxville Opera returns this weekend to the very popular ‘La Traviata’ by Giuseppe Verdi with two performances at the Tennessee Theatre on Friday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Review: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ — A Feast of Theatre
‘Fat Ham’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022, is loosely based on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’ Although the main characters have parallels in both and the conflict of father versus son is the common underpinning, Ijames takes the inevitability of family and societal violence on a different sort of journey in a different sort of vehicle.
Preview: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ Channels the Bard
One of the many reasons that Shakespeare’s plays are still with us both as literature and dramatic production is that they carry universal themes that seem to exist happily outside of their original context. That is the case with River…
Review: KSO Concertmaster Series Looks at the Legacy of Violinist Jascha Heifetz
In the second Concertmaster Series outing of the 2023-24 season at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster William Shaub and his KSO colleagues chose to make the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz the connecting force for their recital.
Review: KSO’s Present and Future Meet in a Celebration of Musicianship and the Mahler Fourth
The title given to this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts was “The Heavenly Life: Mahler Symphony No. 4.” A less poetic, but perhaps equally accurate title might have been “Musicianship: Now and in the Future.”
Review: KSO Features Flutist Devan Jaquez in Chamber Classics Series
BY ALAN SHERROD Be careful what you wish for. Those Knoxvillians yearning for a cute little snowfall instead encountered Mother Nature in a particularly cantankerous winter mood. The snow and extreme cold wreaked havoc on our concert plans last…
Review: Spectacle Abounds in National Tour of ‘Wicked’ at the Tennessee Theatre
In a genre that often sees a show’s gradual demise once the original stars have moved on, ‘Wicked’ has enjoyed the opposite effect.
Knoxville Museum of Art Announces Steven Matijcio as New Executive Director
The Knoxville Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Steven Matijcio as the museum’s new executive director. Currently director and chief curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston since 2019, Matijcio is succeeding David Butler,…
