Review: Knoxville Theatre Club’s ‘Cindy & Ella’ — The Tragic Roots of Fairytales

BY HAYLEY WILSON   You might not think that the old adage “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” would apply to princesses and fairytales, but Knoxville Theatre Club’s JP Schuffman and Sara Gaddis might beg to differ.…

Review: Knoxville Theatre Club’s ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ a Force of Nature

Director JP Schuffman and Knoxville Theatre Club brings us an absolutely stunning production of Southern playwright Tennessee Williams’s 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof that attests to the tenacity of the human spirit in the face of futility, death, and anguish: “there’s nothing more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.” 

Review: Knoxville Theatre Club’s ‘The Story Story’

Knoxville Theatre Club’s current production is titled The Story Story and uses as its advertised premise “the seemingly impossible question: where do Stories come from?”  Of course, the author/directors of The Story Story, JP Schuffman and Sara Gaddis, intended that…

Review – Knoxville Theatre Club’s ‘Cindy & Ella’ – A Dustbowl Gothic Tale

Although the title may conjure up images of the happily-ever-after romantic Disney version of the Cinderella fairytale, Knoxville Theatre Club’s production of Cindy & Ella goes in a much different, much darker direction. In fact, an appropriate sub-title to this…

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