BY ALAN SHERROD Naturally enough, the word “adaptation” can fill some theatre-goers with pangs of apprehension and fears of dramatic compromise. That is certainly not the case with Clarence Brown ...

BY HAYLEY WILSON While Christopher Nolan’s recent retelling of The Odyssey has been on many of our minds lately, Theatre Knoxville Downtown has also tapped into the resurgent pop-culture interest in ...

BY WYATT ALLISON Gen-Z filmmakers have had themselves an imprint year on the cultural landscape, as producers scour YouTube ...

BY HAYLEY WILSON Tennessee Stage Company has just announced the 2027 New Plays Festival, to be held in Knoxville from January 5–17, 2027. The festival lineup was announced during a special preview ...

The Amadeus Concert Ensemble has announced its 2026-27 season, a series of free Sunday afternoon concerts that are a part of the ongoing Cathedral Concert Series at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred ...

BY WYATT ALLISON Ever since I sat down to watch this film in late July, I’ve been on a bit of an Anthony Bourdain kick. The short Instagram clips have always been a part of my algorithm – mostly the ...

KSO Concertmaster William Shaub is the host for this series which features Shaub, his colleagues from the orchestra, and other guest performers.

In 1976, Dustin Hoffman was the star of a film called Marathon Man, that followed a hotshot Columbia grad embroiled in a plot through his brother, with an evil Nazi war dentist played by the ...

Almost a year into its fifth National Tour, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Musical is making an eight-performance stop in Knoxville as part of Broadway at the Tennessee Theatre. Based on the 1991 ...

Composer Giacomo Puccini was reportedly adamant that the three one-act operas—Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi—comprising his triptych Il Trittico be performed together. Clearly, music ...

Strangely, time has a way of both marching on and standing still. In a sense, that is the case with The Outsiders, the 1967 best-selling novella by S. E. Hinton about teenage gangs in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Next up at CBT’s Jenny Boyd Theatre—The Royale is Marco Ramirez’ fictionalized story inspired by the legendary real-life black prizefighter and first African-American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack ...