April 12, 2025 | 7:30 pm @ Paramount Center for the Arts
• APRIL 12:The Reduced Shakespeare Companyperforms“All The Great Books (abridged)”at The Paramount Center for the Arts, Bristol, Tenn., at 7:30 p.m. The Literary Canon explodesas the Reduced Shakespeare Company unleashes a comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. The Bad Boys of Abridgment take you on a 98-minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the world’s great books in“All The Great Books (abridged).”Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? Then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of theReduced Shakespeare Companyzip through everything you didn’t get around to reading in school.$25.04-$70. 423-274-8920, www.paramountbristol.org