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…
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…
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…
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…