In his opening remarks for the audience at the past weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts, conductor Aram Demirjian ...

Music history is full of anecdotal accounts of collaborations between composers and soloists—some amicable and successful, while others, not so much. Certainly in the “amicable and successful” ...

Theatre Knoxville Downtown presents Bernard Pomerance’s 1977 The Elephant Man. Directed by Sarah Campbell and set during ...

The first half of ‘Anora’ is some of the most fun you’ll ever have. Our charming yet childish co-lead Russian is Ivan—who also goes by Vanya—oozes Gen-z status by taking hits of his THC vape pen and ...

“God bless America!” is what our spoiled Russian son of a billionaire shouts in the streets of Las Vegas after he marries our titular character, Anora, in a fit of passion and spontaneity. The only ...

The Clarence Brown Theatre presents a troubling and thoughtful recent play, Liliana Padilla’s 2018 How to Defend Yourself, to UTK’s campus, directed by Jayne Morgan. How to Defend Yourself is about ...

Although the American musical theatre has had a colorful existence of innovation and evolution, it owes that existence to the genre of operetta that graced stages of England and Europe in the last ...

On first glance, the very idea of mentioning Broadway’s musical hit, Hamilton, and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance, in the same sentence may seem ridiculous in the extreme.

It did not require a seer or soothsayer to predict what would happen at the end of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at this past weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks ...

Although little more than a kinetic construction of metal, rubber, plastic, and glass, the automobile has an iconic place in American culture that far outweighs the sum of its raw materials. As far ...

Drawing from a career background in music, motion pictures, and theatre, Alan Sherrod has been writing about Knoxville's diverse art and music scene since 2007 — first as the classical/new music ...