For over 10 years, River & Rail Theatre has been a fixture in the Knoxville arts community, bringing together both local and national talent to tell stories about our city, its people, and its history ...

It seems we simply can’t escape that relevant old cliché about history repeating itself. Not too long ago, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird seemed to have settled into a comfortable status as an ...

The last KSO Concertmaster Series concert of the season comes this week to the Knoxville Museum of Art in a program featuring the Dvorák String Quintet in G major, Op. 77 as well as a slew of short ...

GRAMMY-nominated composer Jonathan Leshnoff had an unusual assignment: create an orchestral work inspired by quilts made in Maryville. It turned out to be a natural fit. Quilts, he says, are “precious ...

Although there is peril in describing the current attention devoted to English novelist Jane Austen as a mania, that seems like an almost unavoidable conclusion. From the popularity of Jane Austen ...

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Centlivre’s The Busy Body, currently in a tremendously clever, intelligent, and entertaining production by the Clarence Brown Theatre in the Carousel Theatre, follows that pattern. The play’s main ...

You enter the playhouse of Theatre Knoxville Downtown, and encounter a dimly lit stage. As you take your seat, the house lights fade, and you must roll a stealth check to silence your phone and hold ...

Check out the official guide to the Street Fair in the print version of the Knoxville Mercury this week, along with previews of next week’s production of Mary, Queen of Scots. Knoxville Opera’s annual ...

Getting a sneak preview of classical music’s future stars is always incredibly satisfying. Just such a preview comes to Knoxville audiences this time of the year with a concert featuring the UT School ...

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At the time Gian Carlo Menotti created his opera The Consul in 1950, American notions of bureaucracy and its practitioners were defined by deep suspicion and the fear of insidious dehumanization. By ...