stage It starts like a pot of water placed across the warming coils of an electric stove: A few basic and, here’s the key, unassuming, ingredients are put under pressure, set boiling and bouncing off one another until they erupt, each reaching up and over one another for the surface of some black, burning container […]
“How does the show look?” asks the man in the crisply ironed shirt and smart specs standing behind yours truly, Curtain Calls —or, as he occasionally thinks of himself in anagram, “I Cull Art Cans.”
A succession of hands and flashlights grace tickets as the audience makes its way into the rafters and onto the floor, filling rows of seats that run to within a few yards of the catwalks that jut from the stage placed at one end of the John Paul Jones Arena, an elongated “U” shape.
There is a $25 million fine for bumping into John Hunter’s World Peace Game, the staggering, multilevel roleplaying game that stands 4' tall near one side of his Venable School classroom.
Monday, October 8, is Columbus Day, started in…well, that’s not important, is it? After all, what is Columbus Day but a celebration of the man himself, Christopher Columbus, without whom our ancestors might not have crossed the Atlantic? That all depends on how open you are to history.
music Popularity is related to visibility, right? Example: A majority of high schoolers have seen the homecoming queen, even if they don’t know her personally. Using the same logic, “Law & Order” must be the most successful crime drama in history, because I am yet to find an hour during the day when I can’t […]
As the weather gets chilly and the 20th annual Virginia Film Festival looms ahead, Curtain Calls gets more riled up than Chris Farley over the chance to let his body atrophy and his mind expand in the dark of the local cinemas. Here are your best bets for the fall: