Actors Scott Wichmann and Eva DeVirgilis – married in 2016 – jumped at the opportunity to perform their own show for the Richmond Performing Arts Alliance’s 2021 Legends on Grace series when the organization pitched the concept of Mister and…
Sally Coleman’s dog, five-year-old Maisey, donned a purple tutu and flowers around her neck for her photo shoot for Capital Area Rescue Efforts 2021 calendar. “Maisey is the May calendar model,” says Coleman, a volunteer for C.A.R.E. “Maisey loves to…
Santa’s visits to Virginia Repertory Theatre are winding down, but the jolly old man still wants to visit virtually with children and also have them and their families watch him act — a new skill he has acquired with the…
The Santa Closet will be Richmond Triangle Players’ first theatre production since the start of the pandemic and the show’s star, Eddie Webster, is thrilled to be back on stage. “It’s a wonderful opportunity that I'm very grateful for. RTP has…
Lynda Vaughan’s crafts fill her workroom and overflow into the garage just steps away. While she makes crafts year-round, this year her efforts have accelerated. “I use my crafts and workroom to get my mind off the pandemic,” says Vaughan,…
Listening to podcasts is an activity Rachel DePompa does every day. “It’s one of my favorite things to do,” says DePompa, NBC12’s investigative reporter and creator of the NBC12 podcast “How We Got Here.” The podcast highlights Virginia’s history, told…
Robin Farmer’s new book, Malcolm and Me: A Novel, is as relevant today as it was when the author was growing up in the 1970s. The young adult publication is based on an incident during elementary school that changed the…
Connie Matthews Harshaw is thrilled that Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists are beginning their excavation to find the original structure of First Baptist Church, one of the country’s oldest churches founded entirely by Black Americans. Radar indicates that remains of this early…
Students in VCU’s Theatre Department are doing something they’ve never done before by presenting a virtual hybrid production of She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms that combines theatre and film. After the pandemic started and it became clear theatre would have…
Amy Shira Teitel believes there are many things we can glean from early space history. “There are endless lessons to take inspiration from in the era from the mid-1950s to the 1960s,” says Teitel, a spaceflight historian and author of…
