BY ALAN SHERROD   As the Bijou Theatre’s red curtain closed on the University of Tennessee Opera Theatre’s performance of two ...

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 ...

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced that Music Director Aram Demirjian has signed a new four-year contract that ...

BY HAYLEY WILSON   New Playwright, Unexpected Venue, and an Emphasis on Play First Take Co.’s next theatrical venture in ...

I am fascinated to hear her answer to Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue when she joins the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on ...

These days, it’s practically impossible to discuss Broadway musicals without using the word “longevity” and throwing around hard-to-believe performance numbers. Following Chicago, The Lion King, and ...

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 ...

Faith can be a safe haven for many of us, providing answers to life’s tough questions and a community to lean on. But just as often as it offers such answers, it can provoke just as many questions.

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 ...