Paula Poundstone tickles your funny bone with her observational humor during an evening at The Paramount Theater. When she’s not on tour, the comedian is at home with her 14 cats, or making us laugh on NPR’s radio quiz show, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” and her podcast, “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.” The first […]
Paula Poundstone tickles your funny bone with her observational humor during an evening at The Paramount Theater. When she’s not on tour, the comedian is at home with her 14 cats, or making us laugh on NPR’s radio quiz show, “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me,” and her podcast, “Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.” The first […]
Violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich and prolific pianist Orion Weiss open the 75th season of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series with a varied program of classic and contemporary works. The duo play off each other in modern movements like the minimal Road Movies by American composer John Adams, and the delicate Romance Op. 23 by Amy […]
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library 2450 Old Ivy Rd. “Their World As Big As They Made It: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance” showcases the visionary works of writers, artists, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. Plus, other permanent exhibitions. Angelo Jewelry 220 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Diamonds & Rust,” mixed-media paintings […]
A decade-spanning love story, a curmudgeonly prep school teacher’s Christmas break, a musical documentary—the 2023 Virginia Film Festival features a variety of moving, lyrical, and laugh-out-loud cinema across its 120-plus programs. The festival takes place from October 25–29 at various theaters around Charlottesville, opening with Bradley Cooper’s highly-anticipated Maestro, which focuses on the relationship between […]
Embrace your inner punk and ship out for a night of headbangin’ tunes with Dropkick Murphys. The Boston rock ‘n’ roll outfit has been steadily building its discography since 1996, with chantable songs like “Rose Tattoo,” “The State of Massachusetts,” and “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” Its recent records, This Machine Still Kills Fascists and […]
Three Notch’d Road opens its 13th season with Genius of Bach, a program celebrating two masterworks by the great German composer. The baroque ensemble is joined by cellist René Schiffer for the Goldberg Variations arranged for strings and the fifth Brandenburg Concerto. Also performing are David Ross on baroque flute, Fiona Hughes on baroque violin, […]
When you fall in love in the multiverse, the possibilities for heartbreak and happy endings are endless. Four County Players’ Constellations follows a beekeeper (Amy Dawn Hamburger) and a physicist (Reed Willard) as they meet at a party. Maybe they hit it off and grab a drink—or maybe they don’t, and they go their separate […]
Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd made his first hit record when he was only 16 years old. Now, almost 30 years later, the child phenom is relishing the past while looking toward the future. Shepherd completed an exhaustive tour promoting the 25th anniversary re-release of his breakout album Trouble Is… in May. He’s back on […]
The theme of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 play Uncle Vanya is captured by two words in the title of Aaron Posner’s 2015 adaptation: life sucks. That message won’t have audiences leaving the theater downhearted, however, when Live Arts kicks off its 33rd season with a concurrent run of Uncle Vanya and Life Sucks. Even if the […]
In 2014, Andrea Lytle Peet was diagnosed with ALS at 33 years old. She was told to get her affairs in order, so she did, and she waited. Eventually, Peet got tired of waiting and decided to start living. The documentary Go On, Be Brave follows Peet for more than three years as she sets […]