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“What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come … ”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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…

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…

Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27

One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a…

Preview: Collaboration Key To CBT/KSO’s ‘Candide’

By Alan Sherrod   It’s a bit ironic that Voltaire’s Candide, a novella that satirizes…

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…

Review: Tennessee Valley Players Go ‘Into The Woods’

The Tennessee Valley Players current production in the Carousel Theatre of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lepine musical, ‘Into the Woods’, is a perfect example of just how this abstraction can work brilliantly with a little imagination.

Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’ at Flying Anvil Theatre

Things aren’t going well for Casey, a less-than-successful Elvis impersonator in a less-than-successful, if not seedy, beach bar in Panama City, Florida. In fact, things are so bad, Casey and his wife, Jo, are facing eviction, and the bar’s owner, Eddie, is hoping Elvis would leave the building. Truly, things are looking downright dismal for Casey when Eddie’s cousin, a drag queen named Miss Tracy Mills, arrives to save the failing bar with a “new” type of act.

Modern Studio Becoming Holler! Performing Arts Center
By Alan Sherrod   Update: Holler! Performing Arts Center, the former Modern Studio, has closed…
Review: Knoxville Opera Wraps Its 40th Season With A Superb ‘Aida’

By Alan Sherrod   It was probably inevitable that Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida would be Knoxville…

Review: A Different Sort of Holmes and Watson in ‘Sherlock’s Last Case’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown

Theatre Knoxville Downtown presents ‘Sherlock’s Last Case’ by Charles Marowitz

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