Gentlemen and ladies, open your programs: The 34-year tradition of summer theater at UVA is back after a hiatus last year due to construction of the Arts Grounds Parking Garage. One thing has changed: The somewhat stuffy name “Heritage Repertory Theatre” is now the more festive “Heritage Theatre Festival.”
Live Arts’ latest offering is a vigorous and charming production of Amy Freed’s mess of a comedy about the Shakespeare authorship question, The Beard of Avon.
To that inevitable social gathering/getting-to-know-one-another question, “What do you do?” Lisa Russ Spaar has more than one answer at her disposal. “I’m an English professor at UVA,” is a sure-fire choice. And here’s a good backup: “I’m a poet.” Not too many people find that vocation odd these days. But let’s hope that at least […]
Laura Mulligan Thomas, director of the acclaimed Charlottesville High School Orchestra since 1982, moved with her family to a new house in 1999. Its biggest selling point: a living room that easily doubles as a music space. It’s big enough for a string quartet, and has plenty of room for a piano, as well as […]
The new dean announcements are coming fast and furiously from UVA. In late April, it was the much anticipated new head of Arts & Sciences, Meredith Jung-En Woo, and now it’s Dorrie K. Fontaine, who has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing. University President John Casteen made the announcement last Friday afternoon in […]
Oh my, what a shock for literary snobs to behold a comic book image on the cover of the new issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review. Regular readers of the journal know, however, that one of the features of Ted Genoways’ editorship is frequent nods to the art of the graphic novel and all its […]
Rumor has it that for the last few years, Offstage Theatre has been having a devil of a time getting enough submissions
Not up on your Greek Drama? All right, then maybe you remember the “Gilligan’s Island” episode where Ginger, Mary Anne and Mrs. Howell get fed up with being treated like…
words Longtime readers of The Virginia Quarterly Review are aware that almost every issue sticks to a pattern: an opening series of articles about some of the political hot spots around the world, followed by an array of literary essays and criticism, art, fiction and poetry. It’s like listening to an hour of National Public […]
Talk about pedigree. A Little Night Music, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, was inspired by the late Ingmar Bergman's exquisite…