If you’ve been reading these reviews for a while, you’ll notice I love me some context. Especially surrounding William Shakespeare’s plays. One of my favorite things about the existence of Richmond Shakespeare is that they’ve forced me to go back to the English Lit...
With social distancing making gathering in one place for the annual Richmond Dance Festival an impossibility, the dances were instead hosted online, where a dozen performers responded to our current isolation with thought-provoking movement. This May, Dogtown Dance Theatre hosted their annual Richmond Dance Festival (RDF) in a video format, since...
With COVID-19 having an extended impact on the way we live, Firehouse Theatre is making big changes to ensure they can keep bringing live theatre to Richmond. As Virginia slowly reopens amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across the commonwealth are doing their best to maintain operation as the virus spreads. The complicated process of...
In the living room of a Stuart Ave home in Richmond’s Fan District, the world’s worst opera singer comes to life… and this unique comedy play heads into its final weekend. Into the Woods Productions invites you to the living room of a Fan District home for its latest theater production, Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir, starring Gabrielle Maes and...
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...
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...
For their performance at the Modlin Center, Alonzo King LINES Ballet used their intricate movements to highlight indigenous languages that are approaching extinction. Alonzo King LINES Ballet brought their evening-length production, Figures of Speech, to the Modlin Center for the Arts on Thursday, January 23. This continuous, hour-long work...
Stavna Ballet's Alice In Wonderland showed a dance troupe picking up momentum and finding its groove, writes Christopher McDaniel. On Saturday January 11th, Stavna Ballet held Alice in Wonderland at the Modlin Center for the Arts, their first production of the 2020 calendar year. The wonderful show retold the classic Lewis Carroll tale through...
