Writer’s Block is RVA Magazine’s Sunday series highlighting contemporary writers working in Richmond and across the Commonwealth. Each week, we feature original poems, short stories, or essays. Just real voices writing right now. This week we’re featuring two...
Jim Callahan is my new comics guru, my Yoda, if you will. A Richmond native, a VCU Arts graduate, and oh, did I mention he worked for Marvel? Callahan knows his comics, and he is exactly who I had to speak to in order to get the update on what's hot right now in the world of comics. For the uninitiated, comics are a vast and quickly changing...
Virginia Rep brought to life the memorable work of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, and Jerome Robbins in the classic production of West Side Story. Direction by Nathaniel Shaw perfectly intertwined the many moving parts and production elements vital to a production like this. Shaw captured the energy, drive, and conflict....
Combining the classic tale of star-crossed lovers separated by tradition and conflict and racial tensions between two groups on the streets of a city, West Side Story hits the stage at Virginia Rep at a time when the world seems rife with conflicting group interest, resulting in violence and disagreement. Directed by Nathaniel Shaw, Artistic...
In an age when 22 percent of American millennials said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are confused as to what the historical event was, “Faces of Survival” meets the viewer head on with a powerful reminder of what modern genocide looks like. The Virginia Holocaust Museum’s (VHM) newest portrait exhibit features more than a dozen Holocaust...
Using poetry, drawing, and video work, Richmond teens in Art 180's Atlas program delved into mental health care, wellness, and identity in their latest exhibit, "What I Think I See," which opened earlier this month. Featuring blind contour and gesture artwork created using observational drawing techniques, alongside poetry and video of step show...
I’ll be the first to admit I started listening to A Chorus Line when I was way too young. That being said, I think I can properly appreciate it for all its splendor, hilarity, and heart because of that. I will also admit I had absolutely zero idea how the stage at Richmond Triangle Players could fit all of those dancers. Needless to say, they...
As our worldview continuously grows darker with every news broadcast, our thirst for dystopian media grows thicker. Luckily for us, local author Ian Bodkin’s has just released the third installment of his comic, The Savage Lyrics, to satiate this need. Equal parts 1984, Under the Dome, and that one season of The Walking Dead with the Governor and...
The magnificent part about theatre is the examination of the human condition. The triumphs, the failures, the intricacies, and the grand sweeps that make up our lives are told in such artistic ways on the stage. But perhaps the most realistic, cathartic way to capture the human condition is through the example of pain. As part of TheatreLAB’s...
With platforms such as Twitch and constantly changing technology, it is a fact that computer and video games will always be here to stay. However, before we had Mario and Link saving their respective princesses, there was a system that solidified itself for life in the hearts of American gamers. A time of cabinets, a steel ball, plungers, and...
