A green ogre, some Disney characters and the circus are all coming to Knoxville soon.

Fairy tales always have happy endings, don't they? That's the case with "Brundibar," a children's opera being offered for the first time in East Tennessee Feb. 11 in Oak Ridge. But the real-life history of this opera, which was first ...

The moment soprano Zulimar Lopez-Hernandez walked through the door at Knoxville Opera's offices where rehearsals are underway for KO's production of Charles Gounod's "Romeo and Juliette," it's clear that director Brian Salesky's near pitch-perfect sense for terrific young singers is ...

Director John Sipes is reluctant to wrap a style around the play "Fuddy Meers," being performed Feb. 9-26 at the University of Tennessee. But he's found a term to suit.

Renowned author Barbara Kingsolver and Grammy-award winning singer Kathy Mattea are coming to the Bijou Theater on March 11 for an evening of spoken word and song to cast a spotlight on mountaintop removal coal mining, a controversial practice that ...

Students from the Maryville High School orchestra and band and string players from the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform together in a 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31 concert.

The Grammy Award winning group Manhattan Transfer brings its jazz-infused pop vocals to Knoxville to perform with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Feb. 4.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Workers at Disney's theme parks will be allowed to grow beards and goatees for the first time ever.

A former adjunct art professor at Pellissippi State Community College is displaying her three-dimensional paper art in a monthlong exhibit at the Bagwell Center for Media and Art gallery on the college's main campus.

Printmaker and teacher Hideki Kimura of Japan will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday Jan. 19 in conjunction with a printmaking exhibit at both the Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture and the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery.

New Play Festival runs this month

More sharks are swimming in Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg in a new exhibit called "Perfect Predators: Sharks!" The exhibit aims to go beyond superstitions about sharks and explore the species' struggle to survive. It includes live sharks ...

Notsville.com reports that a Knox County white-tailed deer made it through hunting season lost in the kudzu behind the Disc Exchange in South Knoxville.

With a 38-member cast, 5,000 costume pieces, lavish sets and powerful music, the audience favorite "Les Miserables" is a big show in many ways. But at the musical's core is a story of redemption and grace, says actor J. Mark ...

Here are just a few ways to ring in the New Year on Saturday.