By Alan Sherrod With apologies to Henry David Thoreau — do people lead lives of…
Theatre
“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: 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
Previewing Knoxville Opera’s ‘Aida’: Soprano Michelle Johnson
In almost every decade, it seems, music writers love to dig up an age-old question: “where are the great Verdi sopranos?”
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘Urinetown, the Musical’
One good rule of theatre: seize comic irony when it falls in your lap. As…
Review: UT Opera Theatre Makes Gender Equality a Compelling Subject in ‘Middlemarch in Spring’
It was probably just coincidence that the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre chose the 2015…
UT Opera Offers ‘Middlemarch in Spring’ April 13-15 at the Bijou
The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre is taking a break this spring from the staples of the 18th and 19th Century repertoire and is instead exploring the joys and adventure of a contemporary chamber opera based on well known 19th Century literature. Their choice is an interesting one: ‘Middlemarch in Spring’, a recent work based on the George Eliot novel ‘Middlemarch’, with music by Allen Shearer and a libretto by Claudia Stevens.
