Big Ears allows a sustained engagement with as many varieties of music as any North American music festival. Its performers and attendees are well aware of this and approach the weekend with an almost ...

Of all the creations of music in the “classical” realm, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is the perfect example of a beloved musical work that has survived a multitude of twisted traditions and ...

Symphony orchestra rosters are generally very stable, but it is inevitable that both professional ambitions and personal needs produce some turnover of player personnel. Amazingly, the Knoxville ...

Whether drawn by the popular classic tale of doomed love, by the score that is inescapably evocative, or merely by the opportunity for a romantic date night out, the audience for Knoxville Opera and ...

Jane Austen’s beloved world blossomed into vivid life this past Saturday during the Jane Austen Regency Ball, an interactive theater experience presented by The University of Tennessee English ...

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 largely ill-formed schedule, happy to embrace the weekend and enjoy what came, ...

Janelle VanderKelen, an Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Time-Based Arts in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, has received a 2025 Creative Capital Award and grant for her work ...

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 ...

0 Rendering of projected new venue for River & Rail Theatre Company, 2651 E. Magnolia Avenue - Architects: Benefield Richters, Images designed by Juliana Terra of the Urbano Group ...

I f you thought the process of memorizing lines for an entire play is a testament to the mental acuity of actors, get ready to experience the ultimate test of on-stage stamina with TKD’s production of ...

We’ll probably look back on 2023 as something of a threshold year. With the pandemic restrictions and precautions fading into a dusty corner of our concert-going memory, we embraced the idea that a ...

Astrange, old Victorian house on the edge of the bleak, disorienting moors of Yorkshire… characters that suggest the Brontë sisters and their dissolute brother, Branwell…and, of course, the arrival of ...