Director Joshua Peterson and his ensemble of talented actors and musicians bring Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, to Knoxville in their tender production of Thornton Wilder’s classic 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Our Town.’
Heads Up! What to See in Knoxville Theatre in September
Clarence Brown Theatre: Knoxville Is Knoxville Broadway bound? We’re talking about the new musical Knoxville, music by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens with a book by the late Frank Galati, that opens at the Clarence Brown Theatre on…
Review: River & Rail’s ‘The Burn Vote’ – Learning From the Past
‘The Burn Vote,’ a new musical with book by Chris Cragin-Day and Music and Lyrics by Don and Lori Chaffer, is getting its world premiere performances under the auspices of Knoxville’s River & Rail Theatre Company. Now through May 12.
Preview: River & Rail’s ‘Fat Ham’ Channels the Bard
One of the many reasons that Shakespeare’s plays are still with us both as literature and dramatic production is that they carry universal themes that seem to exist happily outside of their original context. That is the case with River…
Most Read ARTS KNOXVILLE Stories of 2023
If one was looking for a definite sign that the peripheral effects of the pandemic had at last faded away, 2023 was an almost perfect answer. Readership of articles on Arts Knoxville grew some 20% over 2022, paralleling the increase…
Review: River & Rail’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ – Fabulous Holiday Theatre
For its December offering, River and Rail Theatre Company has chosen a work that is a delightful and entertaining contradiction in such a theatrical discussion—It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.
Wednesday Arts Miscellany: Another Busy Weekend
This week and weekend, holiday-themed theatre offerings abound at River & Rail Theatre Company, Clarence Brown Theatre, and Theatre Knoxville Downtown. While I haven’t heard of any sing-alongs, Nief-Norf is sponsoring its annual participatory “walk-along” Unsilent Night. And, of course,…
Review: River & Rail’s Thought-Provoking ‘A Case for the Existence of God’
BY ALAN SHERROD The last ten years, or so, have been big ones for playwright Samuel D. Hunter. Along with a MacArthur Fellowship, his seventeen produced plays since 2010 include The Whale from 2012 which he subsequently adapted for…
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…
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…