BY DIANA SALESKY   One of the most important jobs a Music Director has is selecting soloists for its symphonic season.

BY WYATT ALLISON   Ah, 2025, what a mess! This was one of the more grim years in cinematic history as it looks like we’ve ...

Change in the art and music world can come swiftly or cautiously, but finding meaning in either one is not necessarily easy to manage. Generally, new start-up organizations are a good sign, as is ...

Adapting classic literature for the stage filtered through a contemporary lens has been the province, if not the raison d’etre, of playwright and actress Kate Hamill. Concentrating on works with ...

The Knoxville Chamber Music Society’s 2025–26 season continued with a captivating program that drew a sizeable and enthusiastic audience. The performance featured two stalwarts from the chamber music ...

Who would have thought that two of our most beloved franchises would work together so well? In Mark Shanahan’s 2021 A Sherlock Carol, Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuths find themselves thrust into the ...

First Take Co.’s next theatrical venture in Knoxville is more of an adventure, blending the beloved tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons with deep emotional introspection. Director and Founder ...

In the spirit of spooky season, Theatre Knoxville Downtown offers a little fright of their own with their latest production, The Birds. While those of us might be most familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is the essential 90s student of cinema. His films have been overtly inspired by the grand ensemble piece works of Robert Altman and the dramatic highs and lows of Martin ...