SHUCKED is the Tony Award®-winning musical comedy The Wall Street Journal calls “flat out hilarious!” And nobody knows funny like economists. Featuring a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn (Tootsie), a score by the Grammy® Award–winning songwriting team of Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally (Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow”) and directed by Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien (Hairspray), this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater. The play will run from Dec.…

The artistic excellence of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is showcased through Bach’s haunting and dramatic Toccata and Fugue and Mahler’s intense Fifth Symphony with a breathtaking fourth movement that remains a pinnacle of Mahler’s compositions.  

The artistic excellence of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra is showcased through Bach’s haunting and dramatic Toccata and Fugue and Mahler’s intense Fifth Symphony with a breathtaking fourth movement that remains a pinnacle of Mahler’s compositions.  

Step into the romantic streets of 19th century Paris with Puccini's "La Bohème." This beloved opera weaves tales of love, passion and heartbreak amidst the bohemian lifestyle of struggling artists. With its soaring melodies and poignant storytelling, you won’t want to miss your chance to experience the enduring power of love and art.

Step into the romantic streets of 19th century Paris with Puccini’s “La Bohème.” This beloved opera weaves tales of love, passion and heartbreak amidst the bohemian lifestyle of struggling artists. With its soaring melodies and poignant storytelling, you won’t want to miss your chance to experience the enduring power of love and art.

CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune and all that jazz, with one show-stopping song after another and  astonishing dancing. In the whirlwind of Chicago’s Jazz Age, two of the Cook County Jail’s most notorious murderesses, vaudeville star Velma Kelly and chorus girl Roxie Hart, become fierce rivals as they compete for headlines amidst a media frenzy. Broadway’s longest-running musical has been razzle dazzling audiences for 27 years, and…

The Knoxville Symphony and several East Tennessee collaborators bring Mendelssohn’s charming “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to life. Crawford-Seeger’s bouncing “Rissolty, Rossolty,” Rautavaara’s atmospheric “Cantus arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra” and Smetana’s evocative “The Moldau” open the program.

The Knoxville Symphony and several East Tennessee collaborators bring Mendelssohn’s charming “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to life. Crawford-Seeger’s bouncing “Rissolty, Rossolty,” Rautavaara’s atmospheric “Cantus arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra” and Smetana’s evocative “The Moldau” open the program.

The Knoxville Symphony will welcome guest conductor and Oak Ridge-native Conner Gray Covington to present Rimsky-Korsakov’s shimmering “Scheherazade” alongside Schumann’s deeply romantic Piano Concerto, featuring Janice Carissa, who is lauded for playing that “conveys a vivid story rather than a mere showpiece,” according to the Chicago Classical Review.

The Knoxville Symphony will welcome guest conductor and Oak Ridge-native Conner Gray Covington to present Rimsky-Korsakov’s shimmering “Scheherazade” alongside Schumann’s deeply romantic Piano Concerto, featuring Janice Carissa, who is lauded for playing that “conveys a vivid story rather than a mere showpiece,” according to the Chicago Classical Review.

Fate unfolds in the Knoxville Symphony’s performance of Orff’s masterpiece, “Carmina Burana,” featuring the Knoxville Choral Society and Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir, and Simon’s emotional “Fate Now Conquers.”

Fate unfolds in the Knoxville Symphony’s performance of Orff’s masterpiece, “Carmina Burana,” featuring the Knoxville Choral Society and Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir, and Simon’s emotional “Fate Now Conquers.”

The 2024-25 MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks Series concludes with a monumental concert featuring the world premiere of a KSO-commissioned African drum concerto written by Derrick Skye, whose compositions have been described as “deliciously head-spinning.” African music resounds on the remaining program in Price’s lively “Colonial Dance” and Dvořák's remarkable “New World Symphony.”

The 2024-25 MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks Series concludes with a monumental concert featuring the world premiere of a KSO-commissioned African drum concerto written by Derrick Skye, whose compositions have been described as “deliciously head-spinning.” African music resounds on the remaining program in Price’s lively “Colonial Dance” and Dvořák's remarkable “New World Symphony.”

Great Scott! Back to the Future, the beloved, cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical with its destination set for Knoxville. Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical, "Back to the Future: The Musical" is adapted for the stage by the iconic film’s creators Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis and directed by the Tony Award®-winner John Rando with original music by…