A pair of plays from the United Kingdom theater scene, Godot is a Woman and Strategic Love Play, journey from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to downtown Charlottesville as part of Live Arts’ Fringe Favorites series. Fringe theater, which originated as the across-the-pond equivalent of New York’s off-Broadway scene, often consists of experimental and relatively low-cost […]
Scott Stadium has an official capacity of 61,500. That’s why it was noticeable to both University of Virginia football Coach Tony Elliott and his players that home crowds averaged fewer than 39,000 fans in 2024. “We need them,” Elliott said last October of the fans missing from those 22,000 empty seats. “We need folks to […]
The new season at Live Arts begins with an ending. Sort of. Airline Highway opens at a funeral for Miss Ruby, a former burlesque performer and club owner who hasn’t died yet. That doesn’t stop a colorful cast of drag queens, poets, strippers, and hustlers from celebrating her with a living funeral in the 2015 […]
It started at a yoga retreat in November 2023. Rachael Kesler Palm was sharing dinner with catering chef Allie Redshaw, who told the story of how she lost her hand after a kitchen accident in 2017. Because Redshaw was pregnant with her second daughter at the time, she chose to undergo amputation surgery without anesthesia. […]
Aiyana Straughn will be challenged to take audiences from a Manhattan playground to a Crimean battleground in the Virginia premiere of Jackie Drury’s Marys Seacole, a play based on the real-life story of a Jamaican-born nurse who cared for British soldiers during the Crimean War. Staged at Live Arts February 14 through March 2, the […]
Local soccer fans considering making the trip to New York or Los Angeles for the 2026 World Cup or 2028 Olympics needn’t go that far for a fix. In fact, they’ll only have to travel as far as St. Anne’s-Belfield, where Charlottesville Blues FC is looking to seize on the growing popularity of American […]
The players were in their 20s and 30s. Some hailed from Croatia, Iran and France; others were born at Martha Jefferson Hospital. Some had played soccer in college or professionally, and now they had homes and families in Charlottesville. They met weekly for casual pickup games to knock a ball around UVA’s Lambeth Field. In […]
Summer may be over, but the fun doesn’t have to stop there. After the beach trips and visits to train museums, the start of the school year brings its own kind of magic, between new supplies and unfamiliar faces and environments. In this issue, we’re checking in with public schools—what changed over the summer and […]
There was an apple going bad on Adar Seligman-McComas’ desk. But it had been a week of writer’s block and listlessness, and she wasn’t hungry right then. She’d eat it later, she told herself. Over the course of the month, she watched that unwanted apple slowly rot. Then one morning, Seligman-McComas woke up gripped with […]
Charlie Murchie wrote his first punk song when he was 12 years old. It went something like this: “Satan in my lunchbox drinkin’ all my juice / It’s no coincidence that my mom packed my 666 sandwiches.” If that sounds familiar, it’s because “Satan in My Lunchbox” is now a crowd favorite in the repertoire […]