For playwright Kenneth Jones, who was in the house for opening night of “Alabama Story” at Clarence Brown Theatre on the UT campus Friday night, the idea for his play …
Clarence Brown and Symphony team up for ‘Candide’
The Clarence Brown Theatre and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will collaborate on a production of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta “Candide” next year. The production is funded by a grant from the Roy …
Chekhov builds great drama with young people in the boondocks
One of the modern approaches to drama, whether it’s a Greek tragedy or a 19th century Italian opera, is to shift the timeframe from the period in which the piece …
‘Starcatcher’ dialogue flies like gun shot
Trying to describe Peter and the Starcatcher, the new play that just opened at Clarence Brown Theatre, is like trying to diagram a paragraph that’s made-up entirely of one-liners and …
Every villain needs a hero
Given his druthers, actor Charles Pasternak, who plays the villainous Black Stache in Clarence Brown Theatre’s MainStage production of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” beginning tomorrow night, would rather be playing …
Kitchen Table Talk
The first time I saw anything on stage other than a beauty pageant or a play produced by high school seniors, I was a freshman at the University of Tennessee.
It …