Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters UT’s Clarence Brown Theatre in the Carousel Theatre Previews: Wednesday and Thursday, September 27 and 28, at 7:30 PM Opening Night: Friday evening, September 29, at 7:30 PM Continues through October 15 (Schedule, information and tickets)…
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 story of Peter Pan. Created in a number of vehicles by J.M. Barrie including his 1904 play, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow…
Review: CBT Goes Global in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
Review of the current Clarence Brown Theatre production of ‘Around the World in 80 Days.’ The work was adapted from the Jules Verne classic novel by Mark Brown.
A Big Weekend for Knoxville
Not particularly by design, there are those weekends in Knoxville when multiple diverse arts events converge on the same time period. This weekend, April 21-23, is one of those biggies. Music, theatre, and street fair festivals offer more opportunities for…
Review: CBT’s ‘The Busy Body’- Clever, Intelligent, and Entertaining
By 1709, the year that Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body had its premiere and run of 13 performances, the fortunes of Restoration comedy had come, gone, and come again. The audience interest in comedic salaciousness and sexual intrigue that typified the…
CBT’s ‘The Busy Body’ – The Force of Necessity
Not entirely by accident, I recently stumbled upon an 1808 printing of Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body (1709) in a volume drawn from productions of that play by the Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. The printing, coming roughly 100 years after the play was first produced in 1709, drew me in with scholarly fascination.
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘Violet’
‘Violet’ — a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley–opens the Clarence Brown Theatre’s 2016-17 season.
Review: Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at CBT
REVIEW: The premiere of Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at the Lab Theatre of Clarence Brown Theatre
Review in the Knoxville Mercury: CBT’s ‘Titus Andronicus’
Read my review of Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of ‘Titus Andronicus’ in the Knoxville Mercury.
In the Knoxville Mercury: Review of CBT’s ‘The Santaland Diaries’
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, read my review of Clarence Brown Theatre’s The Santaland Diaries. Online here. Thanks for reading!