This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival, which with faith and creativity brings the tales of the Bard to life at Agecroft Hall. Fittingly, their second…
A graduate of Maggie Walker Governor’s School, Robin is a college student who enjoys the study of history, reading, watching movies, making sassy comments, playing volley football with her sisters, and writing, of course.
Culturally, the United States tends to forget the Great War in favor of its bigger, bolder, historical sequel, World War II. That war began two decades after the War to…
Agecroft Hall is not only a delightful place to picnic and a synthesis of Tudor and twentieth century styles that incorporates many of the decorative features and structural elements of…
The Created Equal Film Series continues at the Virginia Historical Society, Thursday, April 6. Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope (2016, 68 minutes) explores how stress caused by adverse…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf On a beautiful spring afternoon, I set out with my sister for the Science Museum of Virginia to experience The Dome for the first time.…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf The story of Carrie White, first told by Stephen King in 1974 in his best-selling novel, is all-too-familiar and creepily close to reality, especially for a…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf At five foot three, as I stood next to the photo op silicone gator head I found out I’m just barely dinner for a giant alligator.…
The audience was on the small side, about twenty-five people of varying ages. Two little girls, first-graders maybe, were seated in between their parents. In the row behind them,…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf In today’s world of media overload, it is easy to blow off history and the still photography that often illustrates it. Looking forward, people can…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf Everyone can relate to at least one of the characters in this charming musical from SPARC’s teen players, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This…
