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Performing Arts

Knoxville Performing Arts
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Clarence Brown Kicks Off New Season With Hitchock Parody ‘The 39 Steps’

In Performing Arts by Alan SherrodSeptember 16, 2015leave a COMMENT

The late Ralph Allen, chairman of the theater department at the University of Tennessee from 1972 to 1978 and a founder of the Clarence Brown Theatre Company, was known to …

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Local Theater Company Yellow Rose Earns a Place in the Prestigious NYC International Fringe Fest

In Performing Arts by Alan SherrodJuly 22, 2015leave a COMMENT

I’m rather fond of the term “cultural gravity,” for it seems to neatly describe the symbiotic effect that arts organizations operating in close proximity have on one another. While Knoxville’s …

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CBT’s Big Production of ‘Threepenny Opera’ Muffles the Musical’s Socialist Critique

In Performing Arts by Alan SherrodApril 22, 2015leave a COMMENT

In director Calvin MacLean’s program notes to his current Clarence Brown Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, he emphasizes that the work should be “vicious, …

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Two Sisters Try to Overcome a Tragic Separation in CBT’s ‘A Shayna Maidel’

In Performing Arts by Alan SherrodMarch 31, 2015leave a COMMENT

Time heals all wounds, the popular saying goes. But is that really true? The reality of living with the scars and confronting the memories in one’s past is often anything …

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