This weekend‘s opening of Atlantis at Virginia Rep was a rare treat – the chance to see a new musical that will likely end up on Broadway in the future. Or, at least that’s the dream of Australian composer and lyricist…
Virginia Repertory Theatre’s production of Pinocchio recaptures the timeless fairy tale about the famous Italian puppet and the price that is paid for telling lies. The tale begins with Geppetto transforming a talking piece of wood, Pinocchio, into a marionette.…
Virginia Rep at Hanover Tavern opened the third installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, Broadway Bound, on March 15. The show follows the success of the theater’s 2015 production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, and reunites some of the same cast. In…
An Act of God by Emmy winning comedy writer David Javerbaum (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart) shows us God like we haven’t seen herbefore. Part of the Acts of Faith Festival, An Act of God brings God to the stage in the…
Reviewed by Betsy Estes I must confess that as a theatre-goer I usually gravitate toward Broadway musical productions – big stage, big lights, big cast. Attending HATTheatre’s production of Every Brilliant Thing was outside my normal theatre experience (black box theatre,…
There is no better way to describe the world premiere of In My Chair than to simply say – the show is genius. Written and performed by Eva DeVirgilis, this one-woman show is fresh, timely, and thought-provoking. The idea for the…
Virginia Rep’s production of Once isn’t your typical musical in any way, shape, or form. You realize that about thirty minutes before the production when the actors who are all also musicians, singers, and dancers start strumming some bar-worthy Irish tunes…
I admit that my knowledge of the classic tale of Cyrano De Bergerac was limited to the 1987 Steve Martin movie version, Roxanne, so I had a lot of catching up, or should I say back, to do. For starters,…
Perhaps you took your kids to some of the recent performances at the Children’s Theatre at Willow Lawn – like Pinkalicious or Knuffle Bunny– because they had fallen in love with the books and delighted in seeing them on stage,…
Quill Theatre’s Red Velvet tells the story of the American-born black actor Ira Aldridge. Through Aldridge’s life, the play examines issues of intolerance and prejudice that are as relevant today as they were in London in the 1830s, when Aldridge became…
