Merry Miscellany: December Edition

Above: Jackson Avenue ramps nearing completion as iconic pavers are restored At the Emporium Center for First Friday, December 4 —   The Arts & Culture Alliance opens its 2020 Members Show, an annual exhibition of local artists in the…

Hope Springs Eternal — CBT Hopes to Return to Live Theatre in Spring of 2021

BY ALAN SHERROD   Although hope has taken many forms in the pandemic and socio-politically ravaged days of 2020, so too have some painful realities. For Knoxville theatre-goers and patrons of Clarence Brown Theatre, reality has unfortunately taken the upper…

UT MFA Acting Program Moves Up To Eighth in National Ranking

BY ALAN SHERROD   Knoxville theatre-goers have long recognized the benefits of the University of Tennessee Theatre Department’s MFA Acting Program, a program that forms the backbone of the resident Clarence Brown Theatre’s professional productions. However, local attention has been…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: March 10, 2020

“Let’s wait and see” is the statement we’re hearing a lot these days concerning possible cancellations of events due to the fears of accelerating the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19). Clearly, no one takes those sorts of high-pressure decisions lightly…

Review: CBT’s ‘Hamlet’ in Carousel Theatre

BY ALAN SHERROD   I t has been more than 80 years since Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre changed a lot of theatrical thinking with their production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a staging that used a contemporary milieu and…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 11, 2020

This week’s Arts Miscellany from Arts Knoxville

Review: Spirits Abound in CBT’s Marvelous ‘Blithe Spirit’

By Alan Sherrod   “Anybody can write books, but it takes an artist to make a dry martini that’s dry enough.” —Madame Arcati, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit Pass on the dry martinis like those being served quite generously in Blithe…

Tuesday Arts Miscellany: February 4, 2020

February has arrived—and with it, one of the busiest months on Knoxville’s arts calendar. This week, particularly, is absolutely jammed with openings owing to the presence of the First Friday events. While there may be some painful decisions on what…

The Most Popular Arts Knoxville Stories of 2019

By Alan Sherrod   Last week,  Arts Knoxville offered up our admittedly subjective opinions on 2019’s Most Memorable Classical Music Performances, with Andrew Swafford and Reid Ramsey tickling our interest on important 2019 films. Now, we get to reveal what readers…

Twas the Week Before Christmas: Last Call for Seasonal Theatre and Music

The Winter Solstice comes this Saturday evening, so while we are relatively ice and snow free, check out some of Knoxville’s secular seasonal entertainments in their final performances. As of this writing, tickets are still available for all of these,…

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