BY HAYLEY WILSON Tennessee Stage Company has just announced the 2027 New Plays Festival, to be held in Knoxville from January 5–17, 2027. The festival lineup was announced during a special preview event on August 23 at the Emporium…
Review: Tennessee Stage Company Presents New Play ‘Landscape, With Color’
BY HAYLEY WILSON Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Fest is in full swing this month, with a variety of events from full stage plays to staged readings, table readings, and even free community events. The New Play Festival kicked…
Review: TKD’s ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’: A Battle of Wits
When life feels hard, comedy can be a balm to the soul and even a force for change. That’s what Neil Simon’s 1993 play, ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’, now in a production at Theatre Knoxville Downtown, reminds us of.
Review: ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune’ – The Audience as Voyeur
The audience became a voyeur in this superbly compelling and impressive performance of Terrence McNally’s ‘Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune.’ The two-character play was being given 5 performances in a “secret location” by Amber Collins Crane and Gregory Crane as the title couple with direction by David Ratliff.
Flying Anvil Theatre To Go Virtual With ‘Do You Read Me?’
BY ALAN SHERROD Virtualness is not actually a word, but maybe it should be. Here’s my definition: a state of existence or action in which necessary communications are carried out by digital means through computers and networks, rather than…