BY HAYLEY WILSON If you thought the process of memorizing lines for an entire play is a testament to the mental acuity of ...

On average, how much music do you listen to in a day? Even if you work from home, have a job that allows you to wear earbuds, are retired or otherwise unemployed, most people probably don’t engage ...

Equal 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 that ...

Eric Dawson is Manager of the Knox County Public Library’s Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the East Tennessee History Center. Previously he was Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Knoxville ...

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 was a time in Knoxville’s music past when we treated the accomplishments of the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum as news. Sunday’s ...

Knoxville’s performing arts scene crossed a threshold in the fall of 1970 when the Clarence Brown Theatre opened as a part of the University of Tennessee’s theatre program. With the subsequent ...

I t 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 ...

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 ...

With the sales of single tickets having begun for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 season of concerts, Knoxville music lovers are now confronted with the reality of picking and choosing from ...

The University of Tennessee Opera Theatre is presenting Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Bijou Theatre in a double-cast run of four performances—evening performances on Friday and ...

I f one needed any more evidence as to the raw popularity of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, they had only to wade through the diverse crowd in the Tennessee Theatre lobby and partake of the Knoxville ...