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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
‘The Mousetrap’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
It is said that novelist and playwright Agatha Christie always became quite angry when reviewers…
Review: Into the Woods with Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Love Talker’
The hypnotic drone of cicadas smoothed over by a warm Appalachian mountain breeze; sun-dappled fields…
Review – Marble City Opera Explores Human Communication in ‘The Telephone’ and ‘The Human Voice’
Human communication via the telephone—both the attempt and the psychological result—was the broad premise of…
KSO and CBT To Team Up Again in 2018 With Bernstein’s ‘Candide’
(Above: CBT Artistic Director Calvin MacLean and KSO Music Director Aram Demirjian) Artistic collaborations may…
Preview – Marble City Opera Presents Menotti’s ‘The Telephone’ and Poulenc’s ‘The Human Voice’
Marble City Opera presents Menotti’s The Telephone and Poulenc’s The Human Voice Friday and Saturday,…
Review – The Desperation of Inaction in Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’
In many ways similar to how “Shakespearean” is an accepted adjective, so is “Chekhovian” in…
Preview – The Yearnings of Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ at Clarence Brown
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters UT’s Clarence Brown Theatre in the Carousel Theatre Previews: Wednesday and…
Review – Knoxville Theatre Club’s ‘Cindy & Ella’ – A Dustbowl Gothic Tale
Although the title may conjure up images of the happily-ever-after romantic Disney version of the…
Review: CBT’s ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ – An Ensemble Tour de Force
There is no greater example in literature of the boundlessness of childhood imagination than the…
