This production of William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ by The WordPlayers Theatre Company and Pellissippi State Community College’s Theater Department draws awareness of our own American political turmoil, both historic and present.
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ – The Tradition Continues
By Alan Sherrod In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, it is Christmas Eve and time is of the essence for Ebenezer Scrooge. The familiar tale of Scrooge, from the 1843 Dickens novella that inspired a plethora of film and…
Review: CBT’s ‘The Dream of the Burning Boy’
Our perception of David West Read’s play, The Dream of the Burning Boy, in current production at Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre, might have been quite different without the tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,…
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…