Vol. 1 — No. 6Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Jul 23–26, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 6 · Jul 23–26★ soknoear.com
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What’s Happening ThursdayWhat’s Happening FridayWhat’s Happening SaturdayWhat’s Happening Sunday
See
JUL
23
Henry V — pay-what-you-can
7:30 PM · Ijams Park
JUL
24
Kern's Ho'Down Social
8 PM · Kern's
JUL
24
Merry Wives of Windsor
7:30 PM · Ijams Park
JUL
25
Panic! At the Drag Show
9 PM · Hi-Wire
JUL
25
Henry V
7:30 PM · Ijams Park
JUL
26
Bird Banding returns
7:30 AM · Ijams Park
JUL
26
Merry Wives — matinee & evening
2 PM & 7:30 PM · indoors
JUL
26
The Breadlosers (bluegrass)
4 PM · Alliance
Ijams ParkThuFriSatSun

Shakespeare's closing weekend at Ijams Park — last chances, and a free Thursday

Both plays trade nights one more time, Thursday's Henry V is pay-what-you-can, and Sunday moves indoors for a Merry Wives double-header before the festival packs up.

Last call on the lawn
Thu Jul 23
King Henry V — pay-what-you-can
Fri Jul 24
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sat Jul 25
King Henry V
Sun Jul 26
Merry Wives — 2 PM matinee & 7:30 PM, both indoors
Curtain
7:30 PM · doors 7 (Sun matinee 2 PM · doors 1:30)
Where
Visitor Center lawn, Ijams Park, 2915 Island Home Ave
Tickets
$20 · Thursday pay-what-you-can · under 15 free
Bring
A lawn chair or blanket · parking free 30 min before

If you kept meaning to get out to Shakespeare at Ijams Park and never did, this is the weekend the window closes. The Tennessee Stage Company's thirty-sixth festival plays its final four nights on the lawn, with King Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor trading places one last time.

The move to make is Thursday. Henry V — the big, rousing one, Agincourt and the St. Crispin's Day speech — is the week's pay-what-you-can night, so it costs whatever you decide. Bring a chair or a blanket, because the lawn is the seating, and parking's free starting thirty minutes before the 7:30 curtain. Kids under fifteen get in free through Penny for the Arts. Everyone else, twenty dollars.

Friday brings the comedy, Merry Wives, and Saturday swings back to Henry V. Then Sunday the whole thing moves indoors to the Visitor Center for a proper send-off: a two o'clock matinee and a 7:30 evening show, both of them Merry Wives — Falstaff getting his comeuppance twice in one day. If it rains any night, the Visitor Center is the backup, so weather isn't automatically a washout.

One small heads-up from the box office of experience: the online ticket page has been a little inconsistent on price from night to night. If a screen quotes you something odd, twenty is the number, and 865-546-4280 settles anything else.

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