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The Virginia Burlesque And Sideshow Festival Comes To RVA This Weekend
This weekend will mark the first year of the Virginia Burlesque and Sideshow Festival, a weekend-long event featuring panels, a film viewing, and performers from around the world. The festival will combine entertainment with historical education about the Burlesque arts.
The 7-Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act Tightrope-Walks Over Richmond This Sunday
Touring DIY theater project The 7 Person Chair Pyramid High Wire Act is headed to Richmond. The show is the brainchild of Donna Oblongata, who, along with Patrick Costello, makes up Der Vorführeffekt Theatre (the name is a German idiom meaning "it works except when someone is watching"). Oblongata and Costello are the only two actors involved in the entire performance; they also designed and assembled all the sets used in the play.
Theatre Preview: The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Henley Street Theatre
The titular beauty referred to in The Beauty Queen of Leenane lies not in outward appearance, but in playwright Martin McDonagh’s ability to make you feel uncomfortable. A story about a family working against itself while simultaneously being dependent on each other, Henley Street Theatre’s upcoming production offers Richmond audiences an engaging and often difficult view into what life can look like at the end of the world.
"Spring Forward” to Bring Aerial Dance to Richmond’s Grace St. Theater
A soaring performance of high-flying proportions is coming to Richmond this weekend. North Carolina’s Caroline Calouche and Company are bringing their aerial dance show to The Grace Street Theatre May 4th and 5th for their presentation of “Spring Forward.”
Byrlesque At The Byrd: Byrds Of Paradise Takes Flight This Sunday
The highly-anticipated third event in Deanna Danger Productions' ongoing Byrlesque at The Byrd series, “Byrds of Paradise,” will be flying across stage of The Byrd Theatre in Carytown this Sunday, April 28th. This production promises to be the most extravagant and talent-filled to date, and will be an all bird-themed classic burlesque and vaudeville showcase.
THEATRE REVIEW: Sweeney Todd At Theatre VCU
It is a really bizarre to experience a play adapted from a musical. Musicals have a campy feel to them, and the plots they revolve around are usually a little daft. The story and emotional content of the piece–humor, pathos, love, anger–are communicated through the words, music, movement, and the technical aspects of the entertainment. The themes and communication are symbiotic.
Henley Street Theatre to Merge with Richmond Shakespeare
Richmond’s Henley Street Theatre and the Richmond Shakespeare are excited to announce a merger that will bring the two renowned theatre production companies under one roof for a year-round romp of Shakespearean merriment. The two companies decided to make the move after two years of talk, beginning with their 2010-2011 co-production of The Winter’s Tale at Center Stage.
Theater Review: Richmond Shakespeare's The Tempest
Complexity, and especially ambiguity, are what make Shakespeare Shakespeare. The Bard has many strengths: the grace of his verse and the ease with which he coined the perfect phrase or word, the ability to make esoteric and highly specific situations universally understandable, the prolific speed with which he wrote powerful and enduring plays, and the innate understanding he had of deepest human nature. But the biggest reason that Shakespeare’s characters are compelling is their complex and ambiguous nature.
Theater Preview: The Pride At Richmond Triangle Players
The Pride, Alexi-Kaye Campbell’s award winning, era-hopping play about societal issues and acceptance, continues Richmond Triangle Players’s 20th Anniversary season beginning Thursday April 4. It will run Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8pm through April 27th.
Theater Preview: Julius Caesar
Henley Street Theater will be presenting William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on March 28th at Gottwald Playhouse. The show’s Director, James Ricks, has set Shakespeare’s best known tragedy is in a contemporary world, presenting an exciting interpretation that grapples with the universal themes of betrayal, patriotism and honor, asking the question: Who decides what is best for their country?
Theater Preview: The Tempest
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest premiered with great reception at St. Catherine’s School March 7th and will continue to show through March 30th.
THURSDAY: The Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour Hits Gallery 5!
It's no secret that Deanna Danger is at the forefront of RVA's burlesque scene. From her work establishing her Boom Boom Basics burlesque studio and classes to staging multiple Byrlesque At The Byrd performance extravaganzas, Deanna is constantly working to take the local burlesque scene to new levels. And now, with the Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour, she's moving beyond RVA to take her talents to the entire East Coast!
Theater Preview: The Busy World Is Hushed
The Busy World is Hushed, Richmond Triangle Players’ second addition to to the Acts of Faith Festival, premiered February 27th. This will be their second week of the run, and the reception has been wonderful.
Theater Preview: H.M.S. Pinafore at the Henrico Theatre
H.M.S. Pinafore, one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most famous operettas, is set to sail for Henrico Theatre on March 8-9.
Theatre Review: “Sons of the Prophet”
Stephen Karam’s “Sons of the Prophet,” directed by Anna Johnson for Cadence Theatre Company is yet another impressive and expertly directed production for this talented director. Karam’s emotional dramedy is creatively staged and artistically executed on the small stage of Theatre Gym at VA Rep. Joseph and Charles, played by Ryan Bechard and D.J. Cummings, are two Lebanese American brothers who have recently lost their father to a heart attack; which may or may not have been related to a car crash caused by Vin, played by Marquis Hazelwood, a local high school football star’s careless prank.
FRIDAY: "The Classics... No Effin Romance" At Gallery 5!
This Friday at Gallery 5, Anti-Mag and Lady J Productions celebrate Valentine's Day a week early with their presentation of "The Classics... No Effin' Romance." This multifaceted performing arts extravaganza will feature new interpretations of classic stories brought to life in tantalizing burlesque style!
Theatre Preview: Faith Healer
Self- contradicting, mesmerizing, heavily doused with alcohol… these could all describe Faith Healer, Henley Street Theatre’s next main stage show of its 2013 season. Part of the Acts of Faith Festival, Faith Healer premiers this Thursday, January 31st, at SPARC Center for the Performing Arts.
Ladies Night: A Boylesque Revue Takes CenterStage
How delighted I was to have found myself at a different venue to view the art form which is boylesque. Boylesque, for all you newbies out there, is basically burlesque for guys. Scanning over the crowd, I noticed a consistent demographic: women, aged either mid twenties or mid forties, and extremely rowdy.
The Fourth Annual Raqs Luminaire Comes To The Byrd Theatre
Dance and theatre connoisseurs, come one come all to the fourth annual Raqs Luminaire, lighting up the stage on Sunday, January 27th at Richmond's own historic Byrd Theatre. Showcasing a performance with a marriage of glowing costumes, mythological narrative, and the art of belly-dancing, this year's show features local and international dance and cabaret stars such as Princess Farhana and Madame Onça.
GayRVA: Behind The Scenes of Monty Python's Spamalot At Richmond CenterStage
The Tony Award winning touring production of Monty Python’s Spamalot is kicking off its national tour January 11th at Richmond’s CenterStage. With the play authored by Monty Python’s own Eric Idle, this adaptation of The Holy Grail is a show that appears to be nothing short of a spectacle.
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