Clarence Brown Theatre presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, the classic Shakespeare play about romance, royalty and the beloved characters of Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius.

Clarence Brown Theatre presents The Threepenny Opera, a play about the clash of the “haves” and “have-nots” in Brecht’s sharp critique of capitalism.

The Clarence Brown Theatre presents "The 39 Steps," the spoof of Alfred Hitchcock’s silver-screen classic with more than 100 characters brought to life by four actors in a Tony award-winning comedy thriller.

The Clarence Brown Theatre presents "A Christmas Carol," the classic Dickens holiday story of Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Clarence Brown Theatre presents, "Titus Andronicus," the Shakespearean play about a victorious general returning home only to find political chaos and the emperor marrying his enemy, setting in motion a cycle of violent and bloody revenge.

The Clarence Brown Theatre presents, "Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific,"  the classic play featuring some of the most beautiful music ever composed for the theater. The Pulitzer Prize and 10-time Tony Award winner is set on a tropical island during World War II and tells the romantic tale of how the happiness of two couples is threatened by the realities of war and prejudice.

The Clarence Brown Theatre debuts the 2016-17 season with "Violet," a play filled with bluegrass, folk and gospel. The title character, scarred in a farm accident, takes a bus to Tulsa -- via Johnson City, Kingsport, Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis -- to be healed by an evangelical preacher, only to learn the real meaning of love, courage, and beauty along the way.

Clarence Brown Theatre presents this annual holiday class, "A Christmas Carol," with a new look and adaption of the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Clarence Brown Theatre presents "Outside Mullingar," a romantic comedy set in rural Ireland with the reminder for farmers Anthony and Rosemary that love always arrives on time.

Clarence Brown Theatre concludes the 2016-17 season with "Around the World in 80 Days," a play based on the classic novel by Jules Verne. This "tour-de-force" follows Phileas Fogg with his loyal valet, Passepartout -- on a wager that he will return in 80 days -- from Victorian London through the Indian subcontinent, to Asia and across the Pacific to North America.

The Clarence Brown Theatre opens the 2017-18 season with "Peter and the Starcatcher," the Tony Award-winning play with music and a dozen actors playing more than 100 roles to answer the question: How did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Never Grew Up?

Clarence Brown Theatre presents this annual holiday class, “A Christmas Carol,” with traditional carols, stunning costumes, gorgeous set and memorable characters.

Clarence Brown Theatre will host the Southeast premiere of "Alabama Story," which was inspired by true events and "puts politicians, star-crossed childhood friends and one feisty author in a struggle for the soul of the Deep South" in Montgomery in 1959.

"Urinetown, The Musical" featured Knoxville’s own John Cullum when it ran on Broadway and won three Tony Awards. It’s a musical satire of capitalism, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, politics, greed and the musical theater.

The Clarence Brown Theatre opens the 2018-19 season in a joint production with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra of Leonard Bernstein’s "Candide" to mark the 100th anniversary of Bernstein's birth year. Bernstein was an influential composer, conductor, educator, activist, cultural ambassador and humanitarian.

Clarence Brown Theatre presents this annual holiday class, “A Christmas Carol,” with traditional carols, stunning costumes, gorgeous set and memorable characters.

After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles is finally King. How will he reign? Written like a Shakespearean history, this Broadway and London hit explores the potential rivalries of the Royal Family, the unwritten rules governing Britain’s monarchy and the contemporary stresses on its democracy.

A group of corrupt oil men want to drill right under the streets of Paris. But Countess Aurelia and her band of eccentric followers are having none of it! A treasure of French poetic satire since its premiere in 1945, the characters, the absurdities and the political commentary seem just as relevant today.

If you loved Always Patsy Cline, Honky Tonk Angels and Lost Highway, you don’t want to miss this Tony Award-winning musical "Million Dollar Quartet" by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux. Relive Dec. 4, 1956, in Memphis, Tennessee, when Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash hold an impromptu jam session at Sun Record Studios.

Levi Kreis, a 2010 Tony Award winning singer/songwriter, will perform Broadway songs from Sweeney Todd, Smokey Joe's Café, Jerry Lee Lewis and more during a special concert "Broadway at the Keys."

Levi Kreis, a 2010 Tony Award winning singer/songwriter, will perform Broadway songs from Sweeney Todd, Smokey Joe's Café, Jerry Lee Lewis and more during a special concert "Broadway at the Keys."

Clarence Brown Theatre presents this annual holiday class, “A Christmas Carol,” with traditional carols, stunning costumes, gorgeous set and memorable characters.

Hoping to gather material for his book, writer Charles Condomine invites psychic Madam Arcati to his home to conduct a séance and gets far more than he bargains for in this Tony Award-winning comedy "Blithe Spirit" by Noël Coward.

(As a proactive measure against the COVID-19 virus, this event has been canceled.) When young Monty Navarro learns he’s ninth in line for Earl of Highhurst and its vast family fortune, he decides to intercede uproariously in the line of succession in multiple Tony Award-winning musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" by Robert L. Freedman, based on a novel by Roy Horniman and with music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak.

Clarence Brown Theatre presents this annual holiday class, “A Christmas Carol,” with traditional carols, stunning costumes, gorgeous set and memorable characters. Witness Scrooge’s life-changing journey as members of CBT's resident company perform Dickens’ moving Christmas story of love and redemption.

The Broadway smash hit tells the story of Christopher, who discovers the slain body of his neighbor’s dog. Determined to find the killer, he embarks on his first-ever excursion, carefully following the evidence wherever it leads him. His detective work takes the young hero on an exciting journey brimming with adventure and discovery that ultimately transforms his world.

Back by popular demand after a sold-out run in 2003, this musical is based on the true story of Patsy’s long friendship with fan, Louise Seger, and features 27 classic songs, including Crazy, Walkin’ After Midnight, She’s Got You, Sweet Dreams and Back in Baby’s Arms. Teresa Williams returns as Patsy and Dale Dickey performs the role of Louise.

Based on James Agee’s autobiographical, Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece "A Death in the Family," this new musical begins as an adult Agee struggles to write his greatest work about the event that touched his young life and the effect it had on his family and his future. An evocative depiction of loss and grief and the forces that shape who we are, "Knoxville" is a universal coming-of-age story about family, faith, and love – and about the boy who will grow…