Reviewed by Joan Tupponce If you are looking for something light and bubbly this holiday season in the way of theater productions, you’ll want to check out Virginia Rep’s current production of They’re Playing Our Song at Hanover…
Reviewed by Wendy Irvine How daunting it must be to bring E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web to an intimate stage, with a modest budget, and a small – but completely dedicated – cast. I’m sure every person involved in this…
Reviewed by Sarah Lockwood I don’t get modern art. Once, I humored a friend and visited a modern art museum and I’m pretty sure I got my fill of neon text and rainbow stripes for a lifetime. That’s probably…
Reviewed by Margaret Thompson Your list of fall places to visit is likely to include pumpkin patches, apple orchards, and fall festivals. But Kings Dominion for not-so-scary, good old fashioned, Halloween-themed fun? You betcha! The fun-filled 395-acre theme park…
Reviewed by Joan Tupponce Creators Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone take direct aim at everything from religion to sex in their mega-hit The Book of Mormon now playing at Altria Theater for Broadway in Richmond. You have…
Reviewed by Fiona Bessey-Bushnell The Science Museum of Virginia’s new temporary exhibit, Mindbender, offers your brain an intense but fun workout. As we prepared to enter the exhibit, I wasn’t sure what to expect. When I think of logic, I…
Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf With a dizzying slate of productions in RVA this month and next, I chose to do something I almost never do when it comes to theatre: step out of my comfort zone. Engaging musicals and dramadies…
Reviewed by Susanna Wu-Pong There are amusing plays. There are funny plays. And then there are plays where you belly laugh through the evening. See How They Run, directed by Tom Width and running at the picturesque Swift Creek…
Reviewed by Joan Tupponce If you subscribe to the old saying, Good things come in small packages! you are going to love Virginia Rep’s current production of Becoming Dr. Ruth at Hanover Tavern. The bioplay chronicles the life of…
Reviewed by Susanna Wu-Pong Full disclosure – I don’t like country music and I think Christmas music should be corralled to the week before Christmas. So to say that I was less than excited about spending this pre-Thanksgiving evening listening…
