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 […]
Printmaking is a messy art requiring space that isn’t always available at home. Artists Thomas Dean and Jeremy Taylor are hoping to help solve this problem at Infinite Repeats, a gallery and studio that offers creatives the space and equipment to work on their projects, including screen printing, etching, and risograph printing. “It’s a great […]
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 […]
One day, Psyche Williams-Forson’s daughter stopped letting her father pack Ghanaian food for her lunch. Her lunchbox smelled different than others, and she didn’t want to be made fun of. This is still a familiar scene for some American students coming from migrant families, and unless people rethink their understanding of food culture, it will […]
Down the street from the medieval cathedral at the stony heart of Valladolid, Spain, sits the Millennium Dome, a geodesic igloo made out of neon-edged hexagons that slot together like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Inside the dome, thousands more jigsaw puzzle pieces wait in sealed boxes. Contestants from 40 different countries sit at white tables, poised […]
Seven years ago, Tikara Cannon went into labor nine weeks before her twins were due. That day, she learned her daughters would be born on a military base in Nevada, thousands of miles away from her family on the East Coast. As a new mother, Cannon had received no prenatal education. She was taken aback […]