Artistic collaborations come in different shapes and sizes, but none have been more visibly impactful recently in the ...

BY ALAN SHERROD When Marble City Opera last offered Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera The Human Voice (La voix humaine) in 2017 ...

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 ...

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster William Shaub, host and performer of the orchestra’s Concertmaster Series, wrapped up the 2024-25 season of three concerts this week with an eclectic program ...

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 ...

For the second season in a row, March was guest conductor month for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series. This past Sunday’s concert at the Bijou found conductor Noam Aviel on ...

This Sunday, March 2, another lengthy, way-too-long awards season will end at the 97th Academy Awards. It’s been a season full of angst, headlined by the Emilia Perez online discourse, with the film ...

With March being guest conductor month, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra turned to Maestro Conner Gray Covington to helm last Thursday and Friday’s Masterworks concert pair. Although Covington’s bio ...

In our world of social media influencers and the pressure of amassing likes, shares, and retweets, it can feel like we—at times—lead a double life, one off the screen and one behind it, carefully ...

Directed by Christina Scott Sayer, Theatre Knoxville Downtown’s production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ brings a fresh, technicolor vibrance to a stuffy, verbose parody of the many absurd ...

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 ...