It could be said that Shakespeare invented the rom-com. It could also be said that Jane Austen improved it a couple of centuries later. Between the two of them, meet-cutes, notices of love or rejection arriving at exactly the wrong time, and breathless affirmations of...
It seems only natural for a musician to be the subject of a musical, and this, of course, must be why the idea has become incredibly common in the last few years. Films have done this repeatedly, such as 'Across the Universe,' adapting the music of The Beatles into a narrative structure. More directly than that, though, you have stage productions...
If Pee Wee Herman was roommates with Sherlock Holmes and an LSD-powered robot, Révéler / Orbital Music Park would be their dream home. You may not know the place but you’ve def seen it. It’s the black and gold spot in Carytown with giant skeletons outside. I took three guesses as to what I was looking at from my drivers-side window in typical...
We are working with the ingenious brewmasters at Bingo! Beer Co. and sending our team of photographers is set to roam the buzzing streets of the city, weekend after weekend, immersing ourselves in the vibrant vein of nightlife that surges past the bewitching hour of 10 pm. This week, our crew of CJ Payne, Jody Adams, and Mike Avey plunged into...
You have to smile at the continuity of human experience when a 350+ year old play can so describe our world and our unfruitful selfishness within it. The Misanthrope, a comedy of errors by Moliere, is updated here by contemporary playwright David Ives and renamed The School for Lies. Artistic Director James Ricks and Managing Director Jase...
"Ask a playwright why they write plays," they'll typically respond with something along the lines of, "I write plays because I want to make people feel," or, "I want to make people think," or, "I want to initiate a conversation that needs to be had." The play How to Bruise Gracefully meets all these criteria. How to Bruise Gracefully delves into...
It can be easy, and perhaps on occasion necessary, to put people into categories. Defining people and things into taxonomic groups is helpful in seeing patterns across large swathes of data, and referring to these by definable names helps us humans navigate a world that is complicated and increasingly so. But, so rarely are things dichotomous....
"That was just one of the best weekends I've ever had in my life." I'm sitting on the steps of Main Street Station with Elijah "X-Glide" Fulgham, a 22-year-old up-and-comer in the East Coast street dance scene. He's telling me about his experience at the Red Bull "Dance Your Style" event on April 21, an invitation-only qualifier for the national...
Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian-born vocalist, musician, and composer who across multiple albums has experimented with genres as varied as electronica, spoken word, field recordings, and film scores. Her acclaimed 2022 album ¡Ay!, which revisits the Latin American musical forms of her childhood through a sci-fi lens, featured on year-end best music...
In the vibrant heart of Richmond's ever-evolving Scott's Addition neighborhood, Philip Crosby, the Executive Director of Richmond Triangle Players, has been a trailblazer in the world of theater for over a decade. As the first full-time employee of the company, Crosby navigated the choppy waters of bringing LGBTQ-themed productions to a city...
