Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf Because it’s incredibly, shamelessly, unabashedly fun! It’s not Les Mis or Lincoln – or any other work of performance art fraught with high-stakes emotion and intensity. It’s a heaping helping of Vaudeville for the New…
Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf Wow! That Eva DeVirgilis has some very talented hair. The actress wore a black shirt and pants throughout The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe from Henley Street Theatre. There were no…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay You could say Irving Berlin wrote the soundtrack to America’s twentieth century. Everything from “White Christmas” to “God Bless America” flowed from the pen of this lyrical master, and both are featured in the highly entertaining…
Reviewed by Margaret Thompson With three strikes going against us, my boys and I headed off on a beautiful RVA day to see Madeline’s Christmas. Why three strikes, you ask? Well, as I said, it was a lovely afternoon,…
Reviewed by Geoffrey Gill For years, the guitar has been a driving force in most western music. From the music of the Renaissance to the dawn of rock and roll, the guitar has remained a steadfast part of popular music…
Reviewed by Tony Farrell “Do not go gentle into that good night,” wrote Dylan Thomas sixty years ago, and all his poetry, he used to say, tried to offer a path out of darkness toward some measure of light. Now…
Reviewed by Tony Farrell We’ve all seen great Broadway productions get turned into Hollywood movies, but you can probably count on one hand the number of films that have gone on to healthy, hearty second lives on the stage. But…
If you were one of the thousands who came out to DiggityFEST in mid-September, you were lucky enough to hear a few tracks off of The Diggity Dudes highly-anticipated second CD, Presidential Physical Fitness Test. This follow-up to My Science…
Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf It’s important that the first work you and your kids see, Red Reeds from internationally renowned artist Dale Chihuly, is outside, springing from the reflecting pool at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Red Reeds…
Reviewed by Margaret Thompson New York City’s loss is our gain, Richmond. When former Guitar Magazine editor, Harvey Newquist, discovered that the U.S. didn’t have a guitar museum, he set out to change that. The Big Apple, home of…
