The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra resumes its Chamber Series this Sunday afternoon, March 1, with a program enticingly titled ...

BY ALAN SHERROD   Opening night in most any theatre is a special occasion, one that bristles with the nervous excitement of ...

BY ALAN SHERROD   Without a doubt, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) was the perfect choice for Knoxville Opera’s winter production. With a clever directorial hand,  impressive ...

BY ALAN SHERROD   Admittedly, Valentine’s Day is one of our stranger holidays. Having been commercialized into a ...

Eric Dawson is Manager of the Knox County Public Library’s Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the East Tennessee History Center. Previously he was Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Knoxville ...

I strongly insist on telling myself that the state of dramatic criticism has evolved noticeably since playwright Tom Stoppard, a former critic himself, wrote The Real Inspector Hound in the 1960s.

There was a lot to grab one’s attention last Friday evening at Knoxville Opera’s production of the Franz Lehar operetta, The Merry Widow. History buffs got a peek at the influence operetta has had on ...

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 ...