This weekend, Richmond Shakespeare opens Witch at the Theatre Gym inside the Virginia Repertory Theatre, running October 23 – November 9. Directed by longtime company associate Andrew Gall, the darkly comic play reimagines a 17th-century tale through a sharp, modern...
The aviation daredevils of the 1920s and 1930s forms the backdrop for Wings, the latest musical production from Firehouse Theatre. Emily Stilson, a former wing walker who defied death on the wings of a biplane, faces both her mortality and an accompanying language disorder after suffering a stroke. Kerrigan Sullivan directs the work, adapted from...
In collaboration with The Rose Group, The University of Richmond, and several other organizations around town have kicked off special programs this week to celebrate the annual ChinaFest: Year of the Earth Dog. The festival, which launched in 2004, celebrates Chinese film and culture to clarify misconceptions, and offer insights, to help build...
"It is a story of a false utopia...where humans are living in a controlled environment based on meeting their most instinctual desires, everyone is essentially conditioned and brainwashed," said Maggie Roop, Director of Quill Theatre's Brave New World production, which opened this past weekend. The parallels with our current society are...
Richmond’s arts scene started 2018 off right with a wealth of new exhibits, emerging artists, and cool showcases in January, and RVA First Fridays Artwalk continues to keep it up this month with fresh and unique events for you to check out. Here are some of our top picks from the city’s February First Friday happenings: Artspace Megan Mattax’s...
Prepare yourself for some serious introspection. Friday night TheatreLAB opens “I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard,” a play by Halley Feiffer starring Alan Sader and Liz Earnest, who portray a father-daughter duo in a play that examines family ties. “The entire play starts to devolve into this conversation about what happens when we criticize each...
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and in local artist’s Megan Mattax’s new exhibit at Artspace Richmond, she displays her own unique way of preserving things otherwise dumped by the wayside. Mattax’s mixed-media exhibit, "pər'peCHə, wāt”, opened at the East 3rd Street gallery earlier this month, and by burning and transforming...
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V, Scene I, ll. 203–206 Quill Theatre is no stranger to Shakespeare. But the everlasting words of Miranda spoken above inspired author Aldous Huxley to write his famous dystopian novel...
Science and art are such an uncommon intersection, which arguably makes for a curious theme. Candela Books + Gallery delves into this idea with eight artists in their latest exhibit, “Science As Muse.” The exhibit, which features photographic works from Walter Chappell, Caleb Charland, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Pam Fox, Daniel Kariko, Michael Rauner,...
Ten years ago, photographer Ashley Loth was in a dead-end job in Texas and her on-again-off-again relationship had hit another dysfunctional tipping point. Loth looked everywhere for help and came up dry in a state where she didn’t have any personal connections. Originally from Richmond, Loth began reaching out to friends back home, hoping...
