Reviewed by Mara Guyer My sister and I talk every day – but when we’re together, we can communicate without saying a word. Virginia Repertory Theatre’s production of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley captures the unspoken language that sisters can…
I have a confession to make. I go to Swift Creek Mill Theatre for the food, and the play is really just the icing on the cake for me. There, I said it. I feel better now that I’ve come…
Reviewed by Mara Guyer All’s Well That Ends Well is one of those Shakespeare plays you might only hear about on Jeopardy! or at a trivia night. It’s not frequently taught or performed, and its ambiguous morality and inconsistent tone…
Family dynamics can be challenging, even under the best of circumstances. When the worst happens, families can either rally or fall apart. Or both, in the case of Chicken & Biscuits. The complex and nuanced dynamic of a dysfunctional yet inherently…
In modern pop psychology, the term gaslighting is used to describe deliberately and methodically influencing another person to doubt their own sanity. It comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose husband has bullied her…
“Skin – what is it good for? Absolutely everything!” On our latest outing to the Science Museum of Virginia, we explored Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity. From the moment you enter this exhibit, which is free with your Science Museum…
Between the music, the message, and the ambience of Altria Theater, seeing Broadway in Richmond’s Wicked with my child was such a happy memory maker. I just don't know “witch” was more special when we saw the production: our big…
[Photos by Joan Marcus. This article was originally published in 2014 and has been updated.] Live theater has been dicey with my boys since the first giraffe walked onto the stage of Lion King. Even though they’d been going…
My latest adventure around town was taking my two girls to visit Planet Shark: Predator or Prey, the new exhibition at the Science Museum of Virginia. Along with the exhibition, the film Great White Sharks has returned to The Dome…
It has been years since we’ve had the opportunity to see and learn about pollinators in the Lewis Ginter Conservatory, and it did not disappoint. Richmond families will certainly want to put M&T Bank Butterflies LIVE! on their activity bucket list.…
