The 51st Virginia Theatre Festival opens with Into the Woods, directed and choreographed by UVA alum and VTF veteran Matthew Steffens. The Tony Award-winning fan-favorite musical follows fairy tale characters including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and others in a show exploring the costs of happily ever after. With a cast that combines Broadway talents […]
The 51st Virginia Theatre Festival opens with Into the Woods, directed and choreographed by UVA alum and VTF veteran Matthew Steffens. The Tony Award-winning fan-favorite musical follows fairy tale characters including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and others in a show exploring the costs of happily ever after. With a cast that combines Broadway talents […]
“Return of the Triumphal Mother” at Visible Records shares a series of new works by Dani and Sheilah ReStack, including a site-specific projection installation. The exhibition by the ReStacks, who are life partners as well as frequent artistic collaborators, “continues their imagining of queer family, desire, relationship and fantasy.” In service of this, the artists […]
The American Shakespeare Center brings Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to the stage this summer. Brimming with wit, despair, humor, and insight, the adaptation by Emma Whipday with Brian McMahon shares the story of Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne as they navigate the entanglements of familial and romantic relationships. Exploring themes that continue to resonate […]
Created in 2017 by former Tom Petty and Mudcrutch bandmate Charlie Souza, The Broken Hearts is dedicated to accurately capturing the live concert experience of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in a tribute that won’t back down. If you don’t know how it feels to free fall into a setlist made for rock refugees and […]
Bellringer: Celebrating the Poetry of Rita Dove brings together the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and composer and bass-baritone Jonathan Woody. The world premiere of Woody’s new piece takes Dove’s poem honoring the life of Henry Martin—an enslaved bell ringer at UVA’s Rotunda who was born at Monticello on the day Thomas Jefferson died—and […]
The Paramount Theater 6/21–6/22 Man meets woman. Woman seduces man. Man leaves wife. Woman leaves man for a bullfighter. All hell breaks loose. It’s a story as old as—well, as old as 1845, when Prosper Mérimée wrote a novella about it. Thirty years later, French composer Georges Bizet enlisted librettists Henri Meilhac and Lodovic Halévy […]
There’s a Portuguese word, saudade, that doesn’t translate exactly to English. Maybe it works out to something like “a mournful longing?” But composer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge describes its meaning perfectly in trying to pinpoint his own particular brand of emotive music. “It’s the vortex of where dark music meets romantic music,” he says on […]
The Jefferson Theater Thursday 6/19 You really have to hand it to someone who hit rock bottom multiple times across a career, yet consistently managed to dust off and get back to business. Aimee Mann weathered an early success comedown with ’80s outfit ‘Til Tuesday, stepped out on her own, and got the proverbial shaft from […]
Lydi Conklin’s first novel, Songs of No Provenance, was published earlier this month, and tells the story of Joan, a disgraced New York musician seeking reinvention by teaching songwriting at a teen writing camp in rural Virginia. Conklin is also the author of Rainbow Rainbow, a story collection that was long-listed for The Story Prize […]
Independent reggae artist Mighty Joshua’s conscious lyricism, decrying historic and contemporary inequity while praising positivity and resilience, speaks broadly to the experiences of the African diaspora. His words flow over compositions driven by African percussion traditions, creating a real roots reggae sound reminiscent of genre stars like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The artist has […]