Clarence Brown Theatre

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The deadline to get your season subscription is July 26!

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🎭 LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT TO GET YOUR 2024-2025 SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS! 🎭

Complete with musicals, timeless plays, hilarious comedies, and a beloved holiday classic, you don’t want to miss the spectacular talent and storytelling headed for the CBT stage!

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Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July!

Just a reminder that the Box Office will be closed today, July 5.

Visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/subscriptions/ for more info or to purchase your season tickets 24/7.

Photo: CBT's production of 'The Music Man' in 2011; Photo by Kenton Yeager

This year, Clarence Brown Theatre is once again the recipient of a generous grant from The Roy Cockrum Foundation!

Their incredible support directly funds our upcoming production of 'Knoxville', which runs Sept. 4- Sept. 22. Based on James Agee’s autobiographical, Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece 'A Death in the Family', this moving and innovative new musical reunites the dynamic Tony Award®-winning creative team, including Lynn Ahrens and Steven Flaherty, behind 'Ragtime'.

We are beyond grateful and honored to be the recipient of their support and can't wait to share this incredible production with you!

The Roy Cockrum Foundation was founded in 2014 by Roy Cockrum and Benita Hofstetter Koman with winnings from Mr. Cockrum’s Powerball lottery jackpot. The Foundation’s mission is to award grants to support world-class performing arts projects in not-for-profit professional theatres throughout America. Since 2014, 38 flagship American theatres and performing arts organizations have received major grants from the Foundation. Inspiration for its mission derives from a Camus quote:

“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when
perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.

Thank you to everyone who visited our table at SoKno Pride this past weekend! We had such an amazing time celebrating with all of you! 🏳️‍🌈

We are already looking forward to next year!

It is officially Summer, and we couldn't be more excited about our upcoming production of the new musical 'Knoxville', which will open our incredible 2024-2025 season in September!

Adapted from James Agee's Pulizter Prize-winning novel 'A Death in the Family', the book was written by beloved Frank Galatii, music by Stephen Flahtery, and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.

We can't wait to share this beautiful and emotional story about love and family set in our hometown with our East Tennessee community!

Visit https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/shows/knoxville/ to learn more!
Season tickets still available until July 26.

As we ready ourselves for our upcoming 2024-2025 season, we want to give a big THANK YOU to The Shubert Foundation for their generous support again this year!

The Shubert Foundation, founded in 1945, is dedicated to sustaining and advancing live performing arts in the United States, with a particular emphasis on Theatre.

The operating grants they provide us with are critical in helping us bring our greater East Tennessee community quality professional theatre and maintain high-caliber productions!

Visit www.shubertfoundation.org/ to learn more about the organization and their support of the Arts around the country.

Today, we look back to 2006 when we produced 'A Year with Frog and Toad', as a reminder to sign up for our digital newsletter! Just like Snail says in this musical comedy, we deliver "without fail'!

"I’m the snail with the mail,
I’ll deliver without fail!
Whether rain or sleet or snow
No snail has feet more fleet-ah,
Why, I’m practically a cheetah!
I put the ‘go’ in ‘escargot’!"

'A Year with Frog and Toad' was adapted from the books by Arnold Lobel with Music by Robert Reale and Book and Lyrics by Willie Reale.

Visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/digital-newsletter-signup/ to sign up today!

Are you in High School or a rising college freshman, looking for something fun to do this summer, and love theatre!? Look no further! We still have some spaces available for CBT's Summer Acting Workshop, July 8-19!

Visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/cbt-acting-workshop/ to learn more and register today!

For more than 50 years, we pride ourselves on bringing you the best theatre experience. Our team and artists pour their talent and heart into every production. And we love to do what we do.

Join us next season as we continue to share the magic of Theatre for an incredible 2024-2025 season!

Visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/subscriptions/ to learn more.

It's official! Fencing is up and construction has begun for the new Jenny Boyd Carousel Theatre. We will continue to keep you updated as this exciting project unfolds!

In the meantime, if you want to see where we are at in the process, visit our live web cam footage on our website at www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/the-jenny-boyd-carousel-theatre/

Congratulations to our 16 graduates receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre from UT Knoxville this year! We are so proud to call you our own!

From play analysis, directing, costume design, advanced acting, movement, theatre history, and professional practices to tech crew, stage design, patron services, and performing both in The Lab Theatre and on the mainstage of the Clarence Brown Theatre, our students are prepared for an exciting future ahead!

We look forward to seeing all you accomplish!

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"...Tony Award-winners, Academy Award-nominees, Broadway director/choreographer and talent that has graced the stage from the West End to B'way, to film and TV..."

Check out WBIR Channel 10's look at the new musical 'Knoxville', adapted from a James Agee novel, and why this is going to be a season you don't want to miss!

www.wbir.com/article/news/local/amazing-new-work-agees-story-of-loss-coming-to-knoxville-stage/51-1f23e007-b1d5-4ffc-a861-a357c6e1e60e

Attention University of Tennessee students! We are looking for a Latinx, female-identifying actor, who can play an 18-20 year old, for the Lab Theatre production of 'How to Defend Yourself'!

VIRTUAL AUDITIONS will be accepted until JUNE 13 at 5 pm.

Visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/auditions-employment/ to learn more!

Our production of 'Kinky Boots' may have closed, but we wanted to share a few more in-the-wings photos from backstage!

Visit our digital playbill archive to read about the cast and crew of 'Kinky Boots' and all of our productions from last season and beyond at https://clarencebrowntheatre.com/past-productions/

Photos by Rachel Clift

Thank you Inside of Knoxville for the wonderful article that features our Artistic Director Ken Martin on why Clarence Brown Theatre feels like "home" and a look at our upcoming season. Enjoy!

Clarence Brown Theatre Announces New Season: A Conversation with Artistic Director Kenneth Martin Your Urban Connection

And just like that today marks the CLOSING performance of 'Kinky Boots' at the Clarence Brown Theatre!

CONGRATULATIONS to our immensely talented cast and crew for such an INCREDIBLE run!! You have brought joy and heart to every single performance. And thank you to everyone who has come out to experience this special production's magic!

Photo by Ella Marston

TOMORROW, Saturday, May 4, we are thrilled to announce CBT performing artist Gray Lancaster will TAKEOVER our Instagram account!

Living with Stiff Person Syndrome, Gray is an advocate for accessibility for and representation of disability in the arts. We are so excited for her to share a behind-the-scenes look at 'Kinky Boots' and her experience as an ambulatory wheelchair user.

Gray will be sharing content both BEFORE and DURING the performance tomorrow, so be sure to tune in to CBT's Instagram account all day!! It is going to be a lot of fun!

Read more about Gray in the 'Kinky Boots' playbill: www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/kinky-boots-mobile-playbill/



Photo by Rachel Clift

ATTENTION UT Knoxville Theatre Alumni! We are building out an archive and want to see your photographs from your time in the classroom, behind the scenes of a production, or hanging out with your fellow theatre classmates!

You can share them here and/or email us at [email protected]. We can't wait to see your memories!

And just like that we are officially SOLD OUT for the remainder of our KINKY BOOTS run!

If interested in joining the waitlist for a performance, meet in the CBT lobby 45 minutes before the show begins. You must come in person and can only request four tickets per party. We will call out names as tickets become available.

Thank you for being a part of our Clarence Brown Theatre community!

Photo by Rachel Clift

It is World Laughter Day, so we thought we would share about “the funniest play Broadway has ever seen!” that is coming to CBT in our 2024-2025 season!

'The Play That Goes Wrong' is an ill-fated play-within-a-play, set on the opening night of the Cornley Drama Society’s newest production. The troupe’s ambitious whodunit has everything you never want in a show: falling props, collapsing scenery, an unconscious leading lady, a co**se that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything…including their lines. If you need some good laughter, this production is certainly for you!

To learn more or to purchase season subscriptions, visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/shows/the-play-that-goes-wrong/

Attention UT Knoxville STUDENTS! Tomorrow night and Sunday are SOLD OUT, but there are still tickets available for this upcoming weekend's production of 'Kinky Boots'! But TICKETS are GOING FAST!

Be sure to reserve your $5 seat today!!
www.am.ticketmaster.com/cbt/UTK

We are set up in the amphitheater and ready for a great day at the Dogwood Arts Festival at the Worlds Fair Park! Come get some CBT goodies and talk with us about our amazing upcoming 2024-2025 season!

We are SOLD OUT for 'Kinky Boots' on Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28!

There are a handful of TICKETS LEFT FOR TONIGHT, Friday, April 26, so if you want to see 'Kinky Boots' this weekend, reserve your seats now → www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/shows/kinky-boots/

We hope to see you on Saturday, April 27, at the Dogwood Arts Festival at the Worlds Fair Park in downtown Knoxville!

There will be lots of fun CBT goodies and exciting info about our upcoming 2024-2025 season at our booth under the amphitheater! Come say hi!

Join us right after the matinee performance on SUNDAY, APRIL 28, for an Actor Talk Back with some cast and crew of Kinky Boots! This is a free event and open to the public.

UPDATE: Tickets are SOLD OUT for this performance, but you can still attend the Talk Back event.

Reserve your seats for another Kinky Boots performance here → www.clarencebrowntheatre.com/shows/kinky-boots/