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

It would be impossible to find a more timely subject matter for an opera libretto than Stuck Elevator, Knoxville Opera’s latest offering that had four performances this past weekend at the Old City ...

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 ...

Performances in Tennessee Stage Company’s New Play Festival begin this weekend and continue into March. The performances fall into three categories: Table Readings, Staged Readings, and World ...

Roughly a year ago, Marble City Opera updated its claim in the site-suggestive and outdoor operatic production categories with a very notable take on Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah staged in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 … ...

As the story from 1943 goes—composer Florence Price once wrote a letter to Maestro Serge Koussevitsky asking him to consider programming her music with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In introducing ...

good piece of theatre always keeps its audience guessing, a bit off balance as it were, exploring a narrative hallway of doors left there by the playwright. Becky Shaw, a 2008 comedy by Gina ...

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, ...