My KNS story on the Children’s Theatre of Knoxville

I have a story in the Sunday paper of the Knoxville News Sentinel on the Children’s Theatre of Knoxville. It’s called Never-ending Families and it features three sets of siblings and one father/daughter pair in the theater’s current show The Neverending Story. Even if you are not local check it out. Because the theater, for a little community theater, really rocks.

I know I’m not supposed to say that seeing I’m the journalist who wrote the story. But back in my day, in Atlanta, many moons ago when I was still in and recently out of college, I wrote arts and theater reviews for an alternative weekly called Atlanta Press  (it was later bought out by Creative Loafing). In college I minored in theater and spent a semester doing a work study class putting in about 100 free hours as a dramaturge for a production of Lizzy Borden. After college I moved on to doing more freelance magazine work and less reviews, and I took up 7 Stages theater as a PR client and worked as their publicist for nearly two years.

I’m not trying to impress you. I’m just saying, I’ve been around the block (the Atlanta block) a little bit when it comes to theater. And I want to say, for using the very minimal resources that the little old Children’s Theatre of Knoxville has, they produce a lot of talent. And my kids have never seen a show they didn’t like!

So please do me a favor, click over and read it. And if you are local, it’s not to late to see the show.