BY ALAN SHERROD For the first two decades of its existence since its initial production in 1965, Joe Orton’s Loot continued to shock audiences with its satiric irreverence toward civic authority, middle-class propriety, the church, the police, and the…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Harlem String Quartet, Flying Anvil Theatre, More Free Events at Big Ears
UTKSOM: Ready for the World Music Series The UT School of Music’s Ready for the World Music Series will be back to live performances this Sunday in a program that features the Grammy-winning Harlem String Quartet. The program will offer works…
The Most Popular Arts Knoxville Stories of 2021
As we keep repeating as if it wasn’t obvious, 2021 has been a year like no other. Arts organization have had to reexamine their priorities and deal with new issues, like performer and audience safety, ticketing, and live-streaming. Those of…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: December Happenings
Big Ears — Julian Lage Squint, we are told, is Julian Lage‘s debut album for Blue Note Records, “…a striking new album that weds incisive, expressive songwriting with the profound interplay Lage has honed over the past few years…” Presented…
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
BY ALAN SHERROD If there is anything worse than the blind acceptance of false mythology as fact, it probably has to be the self-congratulatory, approval-seeking social performance that comes from publicly rejecting that mythology. At least, that’s the idea…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: KSO Season Opener, Domino Ensemble, ‘The Sunshine Boys’
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra The KSO, under Maestro Aram Demirjian, opens their 2021-22 season with its Masterworks Series and an intriguing program featuring violinist Robyn Bollinger and Knoxville Poet Laureate Rhea Carmon. Valerie Coleman: Umoja (Anthem Of Unity) Antonio Vivaldi: …
Review: Flying Anvil Theatre’s ‘The Sunshine Boys’
BY ALAN SHERROD Like the old joke poses: What’s the secret to comedy? Timing. Timing, as it turns out, is the very reason I am suggesting you visit Flying Anvil Theatre for their latest production, The Sunshine Boys, directed…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Minton Sparks, UT Downtown Gallery, New Venue Entry Requirements
The downtown Knoxville live performance venues—the Tennessee and Bijou Theatres—have announced new entry requirements for audiences attending shows and concerts, effective immediately. If you currently have tickets, or will be purchasing tickets, to a concert in these spaces, you will…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: KMA, Flying Anvil Theatre, et al. Aug 17 – 22
Knoxville Museum of Art Organized by the Mint Museum of Charlotte, North Carolina, and opening at the Knoxville Museum of Art on Friday, August 20, Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum focuses on the art of collage, the assembly of…