It rarely happens this way, but thanks to the whims of the calendar, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will be opening the 2023-24 season for two of its major series within a few days of each other. The KSO’s always-intriguing Chamber…
Big Ears 2024 Announces Headliners and Starting Line-Up
Big Ears has announced its headliners and lineups for the 2024 festival that will occupy downtown from Thursday, March 21 thru Sunday, March 24, 2024. Headliners include some big-name newbies and some old favorites. Herbie Hancock – Laurie Anderson –John…
KSO’s 2023-24 Season: A Q&A with Maestro Aram Demirjian
BY ALAN SHERROD With the sales of single tickets having begun for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 season of concerts, Knoxville music lovers are now confronted with the reality of picking and choosing from the five series and the…
River & Rail Theatre Co. Announces Its 2023-24 Season of Plays
River & Rail Theatre Co.— operating in the Old City Performing Arts Center, 111 State Street— has announced its 2023-24 season of four plays. The company is also introducing Memberships to its theatre-goer experience. Memberships are available in several tiers…
One Great Reason to Get Your KSO Tickets: Violinist Stefan Jackiw
BY DIANA SALESKY Single tickets for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) season went on sale yesterday. There are many great reasons to purchase tickets sooner rather than later – Mahler’s Symphony #4, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Handel’s Messiah,…
August 16-20: KCPL’s Clarence Brown Film Festival
Knoxville’s performing arts scene crossed a threshold in the fall of 1970 when the Clarence Brown Theatre opened as a part of the University of Tennessee’s theatre program. With the subsequent creation of a LORT professional company as resident adjunct…
Knoxville Opera Announces 2023-24 Season of Operas
Knoxville Opera has announced its 2023-24 season of opera and related offerings. As in the past, three operas will be featured in October, February, and May. Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff Friday, October 13 and Sunday, October 15 — Tennessee Theatre Directed…
This Week: Marble City Opera Goes Outdoors for Carlisle Floyd’s ‘Susannah’
Chamber opera has been the raison d’etre for Marble City Opera over its 10 years of life, even if many of the company’s productions seemed to redefine what a “chamber” actually is. Tosca in a cathedral and La Traviata in…
Review: River & Rail Theatre Co. Explores Secrets and Truths in ‘Fun Home’
BY ALAN SHERROD Successful works of theatre have a way of holding up a mirror to its viewers, its reflection revealing universal truths that touch each individual with memories and revelations specific to their own lives. That is certainly…
This Week: The Lusty Month of May Begins with KSO, UTSO, KJO, Jazz Tuesdays, et al.
The lusty month of May has arrived, although the “gusty” month of May is probably more accurate. Whether May is a cause for excitement or not depends on one’s awareness that the 2022-23 season is now beginning to wind down…