Live from Fort Sanders! It’s Knoxville’s version of Saturday Night Live!

Well, not really. But WUTK-FM and Radio Free Theatre will present Live

from Fort Sanders, a benefit for Circle Modern Dance and the Tennessee

Stage Company.

Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m., performances will be taped for

broadcast on Radio Free Theatre, a radio theater show running 9 p.m. on

Sunday nights. Will you be able to say, “I was there” ?

The performances will feature live music, dance and theater at the Laurel

Theatre. Circle Modern Dance, the Cheeksters, Amelia Earhart Returns and

the Rent Boys will perform. Can-Can, a play by Romulus Linney, and a new

radio play featuring performers from the University of Tennessee Theatre

Department will also be performed.

Here’s a little background:

Circle Modern Dance, a four-year-old dance company with an international

cast, has contributed to the Knoxville community with many organizations

like AIDS Response Knoxville, the Tennessee School for the Deaf and the

Kwanza Festival. They will perform two pieces in conjunction with music

from the Cheeksters.

The Cheeksters, an international duo, have been a local acoustic, rock and

funk favorite for years in K-town and the surrounding area. They have

performed at famed venues in New York and are just returning from

performing in England. Not to be missed.

Amelia Earhart Returns is an acoustic duo that has gathered a loyal cult

following with lush vocals, rich jazz and folk-tinged songs.

All of these performances, along with the Rent Boys, should prove to be a

fruitful and enjoyable performance ; the last performance from the

Cheeksters and Circle Modern Dance got rave reviews. Tickets are $5 at the

door.