Opening night in most any theatre is a special occasion, one that bristles with the nervous excitement of performers—and audiences—high on anticipation. However, when that opening night is also the ...

Ah, 2025, what a mess! This was one of the more grim years in cinematic history as it looks like we’ve lost another legacy studio to either a streaming platform that may kill the theatrical business ...

A wise parent will embrace the innocence and naiveté of a child, and their awakening cultural interests—no matter how irritating they may be at the time— with full knowledge that those charming days ...

Adapting classic literature for the stage filtered through a contemporary lens has been the province, if not the raison d’etre, of playwright and actress Kate Hamill. Concentrating on works with ...

In a year full of stories commenting on modern American culture, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme might be the most American film of the year. Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) is a young, hungry and overly ...

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced that Music Director Aram Demirjian has signed a new four-year contract that will continue his leadership of the orchestra through the 2029-30 season. “We ...

First Take Co.’s next theatrical venture in Knoxville is more of an adventure, blending the beloved tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons with deep emotional introspection. Director and Founder ...

As a subset of theatrical performance that is tied to both history and innovation, opera is overflowing with its own often esoteric customs and charming specialties. Unlike cinema and dramatic theatre ...

Note for note, minute for minute, Georges Bizet’s Carmen can seem today like one hit tune after another. Interestingly, it didn’t start its operatic life that way, the premiere in 1875 being quite the ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is the essential 90s student of cinema. His films have been overtly inspired by the grand ensemble piece works of Robert Altman and the dramatic highs and lows of Martin ...

Since its founding in 2013, Marble City Opera has followed an intriguing evolutionary track, one that has embraced the concept of site-suggestive staging to offer both a fresh take on operatic ...

For over 10 years, River & Rail Theatre has been a fixture in the Knoxville arts community, bringing together both local and national talent to tell stories about our city, its people, and its history ...