Hayley Wilson is a PhD candidate in the English department at UTK studying Black drama and performance. Her dissertation project looks at two beloved Harlem Renaissance playwrights, Zora Neale Hurs… ...

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 ...

With his latest film, 'Eddington', Ari Aster borrows more culture critic tendencies. Joaquin Phoenix once again plays a man—this time much less afraid of himself and others—who is married to a woman ...

To more accurately reflect its evolution, scale, and importance, the Knoxville performance entity previously known as the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble has undergone a name change to become the Amadeus ...

It did not require a seer or soothsayer to predict what would happen at the end of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at this past weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Masterworks ...

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Aram Demirjian have announced the programs for the orchestra’s 2025 -26 season. With the announcement, 2025-26 series subscriptions are on sale now.

One of the most interesting ironies of the American cinema is that the now-classic holiday television vehicle, the 1946 Frank Capra film, 'It’s A Wonderful Life,' was not initially successful, either ...

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra opened its 2024-25 season with George Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, plus 'Kauyumari' by the contemporary Mexican composer, Gabriela Ortiz.

Such is the background for Marble City Opera’s latest captivating offering, the U.S. premiere of City of Ashes, which opened last evening and has one more performance tonight at Church of the ...

T here is an ineffable sense of magic in theatre that is performed outdoors, particularly when accomplished at twilight in a natural setting as the fading light and ambient sounds of nighttime take ...