BY HAYLEY WILSON For over 10 years, River & Rail Theatre has been a fixture in the Knoxville arts community, bringing ...

and blow into it with all my living breath. we have become beautiful without even knowing it. – from “Nightclub” by Billy Collins I don’t know about you and yours, but a big part of my cohort went ...

There should probably be a special category for entertainments like Moulin Rouge! The Musical. To be sure, it is every inch a musical, although minus a fully original score. Its plot toys with opera ...

In case you haven’t been paying attention, jukebox musicals are real crowd-pleasers. For example, Ain’t Too Proud, the story of the Temptations, just finished a lengthy run on Broadway and has begun ...

In the Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong, the question confronting audiences is not whether they will laugh at the breathlessly farcical goings-on in this parody of ...

Imagine being a young singer with operatic ambitions, ready to make the most of an undergraduate or graduate opera program to provide a springboard into the professional world, when rather suddenly … ...

A collaboration between a composer and an author/poet can take many forms and involve varying degrees of artistic connection. However, when the subject matter of a very successful collaboration flows ...

It’s 1959 and the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday is performing at a small, seedy bar in South Philadelphia called Emerson’s Bar and Grill. That is the basis for Lanie Robertson’s Lady Day At ...

First Reformed is, in many ways, a departure from Schrader’s earlier work. Despite his initial attraction to transcendental style, he built a career with the tools of a more traditional cinema: namely ...

Knoxville has often had a tenuous relationship with its own atmospheric history, a history full of intersections between geography and notable persons that weave in and out of our cultural ...

This monthly series of chamber music invites listeners to a Wednesday Lunchtime performance by the KSO’s Principal String Quartet and the Principal Woodwind Quintet. The concert this Wednesday, ...