Before we go any further, no, you’re not crazy. There is no King James Shakespeare play. Rajiv Joseph’s very recent 2022 play is decidedly not Elizabethan and contains far more garbage can basketball than Hamlet. The only thing I love more than Richmond Shakespeare’s...
Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your Richmond Comics X-Change: GalaxyCon 2020 Preview Edition. This week we see the opening of GalaxyCon in Richmond, and for year two, we are going to get you prepared just in time to meet all of your favorite actors, comic book authors, and -- for the auto nerds out there -- even a few of your...
In Virginia Rep's current presentation of August Wilson's Fences, director Tawnya Pettiford-Wates shows the heart of a black family's struggle to keep the lingering effects of racism from pulling them apart. From one of the largest performing arts organizations in Central Virginia comes a story of legacy, family, responsibility, honor, duty, and...
Richmond Ballet’s Minds in Motion program gives city school students a different type of extra-curricular activity credit: ballet. While thousands of Virginia students walked across stages to collect their diplomas last year, several hundred marked the end of the school year in a different way -- with the grand finale of Minds in Motion, a...
This Valentine's Day, Death Club Radio's Phil Ford considers the doomed romantic tradition of the Lover's Leap, and asks: where did this macabre folk legend come from? I like to think I am a practical, sensible person -- although many have told me otherwise -- but I still can’t fathom why two forlorn fools would jump off a cliff for love. Who the...
The Lost In Williamsburg podcast tells listeners a supernatural story of the city, shifting from the 18th century to present-day through strange and unexplained happenings. Phillip Merritt has “No F@%s Left to Give” when it comes to art. Phillip Merritt is an architectural landscaper by day, and a multi-dimensional artist by night. Merritt...
Richmond non-profit organization SPARC uses art, music, and performance to help local youth, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds, grow into creative, successful adults. Every child is different. They have different backgrounds, different family situations, and a different story to tell the world, good or bad. Some are in need of a...
Happiest of Tuesdays, comic fans! Welcome back to your bi-weekly stop for comics and pop culture news in the River City. Every issue we talk to industry experts and Richmond creatives who love comics and dig deep to find their recommendations on the next big read, with a little bit of news so we eat our vegetables, too. This week in news we...
Every Friday night this month, the Coalition Theater presents a new episode of Improvised Friends, in which six Richmond improv comics bring the legendary sitcom to life before your very eyes. In celebration of the classic 90s sitcom’s 25th anniversary, The Coalition Theater is presenting Friends in a never-before-seen manner: improv! Every...
The Ashland-based troupe of haunters have expanded beyond their annual Halloween-focused activities to open Red Vein Escape, an escape room with experiences based around some classic Richmond spook stories. Every town has a legend. In West Passaic, New Jersey, it’s the 10-mile Clinton Road; in Stull, Kansas, legend has it that the local cemetery...
