Packed with as many action-filled moments as somber reflections on global conflict, playwright Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous), which opened last Friday at Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre, is a rollercoaster ride of lightness and darkness, of hope and despair. This thoughtful and resonant production offers an important observation
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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: ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune’ – The Audience as Voyeur
The audience became a voyeur in this superbly compelling and impressive performance of Terrence McNally’s ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune.’ The two-character play was being given 5 performances in a “secret location” by Amber Collins Crane and Gregory Crane as the title couple with direction by David Ratliff.
New to Knoxville — Theater 23 Launches With Arlene Hutton’s ‘As It Is In Heaven’
Trying out the theatrical waters in Knoxville is a new enterprise, Theater 23, headed up by its Founding Artistic Director, Tom Eubanks, a recent Knoxville transplant from California. Their first production will be ‘As It Is in Heaven’ by Arlene Hutton directed by Eubanks and performed at the Old City Performing Arts Center.
Review: CBT’s ‘The Giver’ – Warning of a Dystopian World and a Ray of Hope
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: Regency Magic Abounds at the Jane Austen Regency Ball
Jane Austen’s beloved world blossomed into vivid life this past Saturday during the Jane Austen Regency Ball, an interactive theater experience presented by The University of Tennessee English Department and Knoxville’s First Take Theater Company.
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…
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.
Review: River & Rail’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ – Fabulous Holiday Theatre
For its December offering, River and Rail Theatre Company has chosen a work that is a delightful and entertaining contradiction in such a theatrical discussion—It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.
Review: Traditions Get Even Better with CBT’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
CBT has been offering up various theatrical productions based on the Charles Dickens classic novella for decades, with many regular theatre-goers—and many occasional ones—making attendance a part of their own Holiday tradition.
