Big Ears allows a sustained engagement with as many varieties of music as any North American music festival. Its performers and attendees are well aware of this and approach the weekend with an almost ...

BY ALAN SHERROD It would be nice if we could pretend that the past weekend was a normal one for classical music in Knoxville. The fact is, there was nothing normal about it. Knoxville was treated to ...

I don’t know about you and yours, but a big part of my cohort went into Big Ears 2025 with a lackadaisical attitude and a largely ill-formed schedule, happy to embrace the weekend and enjoy what came, ...

It goes without saying that Tim Burton’s cleverly stylized 1988 film, Beetlejuice, has legions of fans. Based on the crowd in the Tennessee Theatre lobby Tuesday evening, the Broadway musical stage ...

0 Rendering of projected new venue for River & Rail Theatre Company, 2651 E. Magnolia Avenue - Architects: Benefield Richters, Images designed by Juliana Terra of the Urbano Group ...

Marble City Opera journeys to Oak Ridge for their 2025 springtime offering, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, on Thursday and Saturday, June 5 and 7, at 7:00 PM. The opera company, well known for its outdoor, ...

BY HAYLEY WILSON Audiences interested in a psychological thriller get their fill of on-stage suspense with Theatre Knoxville Downtown’s production of How A Boy Falls. Director Windie Wilson’s take on ...

E qual parts existentialism and comically whimsical narrative, Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story, which opened last week in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre, is a feast of storytelling ...

For those who don’t quite understand what a conductor really does, it’s in rehearsals you find out. More to the point, the words a conductor speaks matter. Every time the conductor puts down the baton ...

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, now in its second National Tour run, is making a stop in Knoxville this week for eight performances at the Tennessee Theatre. This quintessential biographical jukebox ...