For the last 17 years, Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival International Street Fair has grown and evolved from an event aimed mostly at opera-goers, into a multi-genre, multi-stage festival of performances, artisans, and food that attracts a diverse cross-section of Knoxvillians.…
Review: Theatre Knoxville Downtown Opens In New Digs With ‘One Slight Hitch’
By Alan Sherrod It wasn’t “just another op’nin’ of another show” for Theatre Knoxville Downtown and their production of Lewis Black’s One Slight Hitch on Friday evening. While gallery hoppers were making their way around downtown Knoxville and the…
Theatre Knoxville Downtown Begins Its Second Act And Revives a Lonely Corner
By Alan Sherrod Urban renewal—if one can still use that term today with a straight face—has not been kind to 800 South Central Street. A mere two blocks east of the bustle of Gay Street, and on the now…
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 3
The fall arts season has traditionally started with Labor Day, so here we are. This week, add in First Friday and you have a wide range of enlightenments and diversions. Here are a few highlights. THEATRE The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27
One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a few more days. All will be different next week—patches of urban concrete and suburban grass, accustomed to basking in the early morning sun, may find…
Review: A Different Sort of Holmes and Watson in ‘Sherlock’s Last Case’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
Theatre Knoxville Downtown presents ‘Sherlock’s Last Case’ by Charles Marowitz
This Weekend: An Overwhelming Diversity of Events
Gospel music, opera, Agatha Christie, Ravel, Shostakovich, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Opera, horror films, documentaries, home movies, Appalachian Ballet — oh my. For at least 10 years, we’ve been predicting a time would come in Knoxville’s surging arts and…
‘The Mousetrap’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
It is said that novelist and playwright Agatha Christie always became quite angry when reviewers would reveal the plot, and possibly even the surprise endings, of her mystery works. To keep the spirit of Christie at bay, I shall not…
Review: ‘God of Carnage’ at Theatre Knoxville Downtown
It all begins amicably enough. Two sets of parents in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn meet to cordially discuss a fight that has taken place between their two 11-year old sons, a fight in which one boy struck the…
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…