In the most recent of its collaborations with its sister museum in Montreal, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has brought the splendor of Napoleon Bonaparte’s court to Richmond in Napoleon: Power and Splendor. The curator of early decorative arts…
Due to popular demand, Quill Theatre is remounting its production of Romeo and Juliet, weekends through June 24 at Agecroft Hall, as part of the twentieth annual Richmond Shakespeare Festival. The stage is set at Agecroft Hall, a Tudor manor house…
If there is one thing we parents can all agree on, it’s that we don’t take enough time out of our busy lives for ourselves. So after taking the boys to a wonderful family play earlier in the weekend, I…
If you’re lucky enough to be spending Memorial Day weekend in Richmond, make plans to get over to the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen for the CharacterWorks production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing through Sunday. The…
As an actress, I know the main goal of any production is to tell the story while engaging the audience. The cast of SPARC’s Legally Blonde The Musical Jr. was having so much fun on stage that I was having…
In this unique take on Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy, Quill Theatre continues its tradition of asking audience members to reevaluate their original conception of what makes the Bard’s stories so resonant and impervious to the massive cultural differences between 1500s…
After years of reading Pinkalicious to my girls, 13, 11, and 5, I was excited and curious to see how the stories about a bright, plucky, pink-loving girl would be transformed for the theatre. In what kind of pickle would…
I started reading Erma Bombeck’s columns and books years ago when I was a young housewife. Like millions of her fans, I could relate to the experiences she was recounting. She took ordinary circumstances and brought them to life in…
Culturally, the United States tends to forget the Great War in favor of its bigger, bolder, historical sequel, World War II. That war began two decades after the War to End All Wars ended with the signing of the Treaty…
One of my favorite books from childhood currently is on a bookshelf in my college dorm room. Titled simply Greek Myths, the book shows wear and tear, as well as a library cataloguing sticker that implies my dad definitely stole…
