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Aram Demirjian discusses the season opener, featuring music of Mozart, Shaw and Ginastera. -
The University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre begins a new season with a new artistic director. Ken Martin spoke with WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper about what he envisions for the future of the CBT and the live entertainment industry.
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The Urban Word NYC organization started the National Youth Poet Laureate program in 2016. Earlier this year, the City of Knoxville announced its first Youth Poet Laureate in that program: Melody Dalili is a rising senior at Farragut High School and has been writing poetry since the third grade. Dalili and the City’s current Poet Laureate, Rhea Carmon spoke with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper. -
"A Kid Like Jake" opens at the Flying Anvil Theatre on Thursday, June 16th and runs through June 26th. WUOT's Melony Dodson talks with director Doug James.
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Taber Gable stopped by with his ensemble to talk about his latest projects and what's ahead. Hear Taber break it down with Kyle Miles, Jonathan Pinson, and Andrew Renfroe.
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The Carpetbag Theatre’s second cohort of the Homegrown Ambassadors Youth Theatre Program is about to wrap up its season. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with the theatre’s Youth Director Kisha Rockett and high-school senior and Homegrown Ambassador Jasmyne Simpkins about the play the group has written called A Child’s Place. The play questions what a child’s place is when adults tell them that they should be seen and not heard.
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Drummer and bandleader Andrew Cyrille makes talks with Todd Steed about his upcoming performance at Big Ears.
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After decades away and a pandemic postponement, Pierre Bensusan returns to Knoxville this Friday. Todd Steed talks with Pierre about his post-pandemic lifestyle, his favorite guitar and more. More information at https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com/events
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Knoxville Opera has taken on the challenge of producing a thrilling and seldom-performed opera: Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele. Combining the forces of a 100+…
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The play Blood at the Root opens this week at the University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre. Dominique Morisseau’s 2013 play is inspired by and loosely based on the Jena Six case in Louisiana. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with director Tracey Copeland Halter about the play and about how producing it now is different than it might have been only a decade ago.
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The Sackbut is an instrument with a strange-sounding name, although the instrument itself doesn't sound all that unusual. It looks and sounds quite…
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