The first thing people always ask me is, ‘You’re an opera company, why are you doing a musical?’” said Michelle Krisel, General Director of Ash Lawn Opera, and the behind-the-scenes creative force in charge of casting, performance selections, fundraising, and community outreach for the company. We spoke with Krisel at Ash Lawn’s Downtown office during […]
The first thing people always ask me is, ‘You’re an opera company, why are you doing a musical?’” said Michelle Krisel, General Director of Ash Lawn Opera, and the behind-the-scenes creative force in charge of casting, performance selections, fundraising, and community outreach for the company. We spoke with Krisel at Ash Lawn’s Downtown office during […]
Now that we’re six films into the X-Men series, it’s about time we got one that can stand on its own. It’s not that viewers should skip all the other X-Men films—but seriously, skip Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, the truly wretched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Bryan Singer’s original X-Men—but Hugh Jackman is captivating […]
First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Listings are compiled in collaboration with Piedmont Council for the Arts. To list an exhibit, please send information two weeks before opening to arts@c-ville.com. First Fridays, August 2 The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello […]
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal goes deep. Deeper, in fact, than many social constructs deem comfortable. The production’s dialogue allows the audience to reflect upon the turmoil of a family whose members are struggling to come to terms with the worsening bipolar disorder of their mother. Addressing issues associated with severe mental […]
Roanoke rock trio Eternal Summers (left) joins Raleigh-based The Love Language, offering two distinct takes on pop-rock. While the Summers inject graceful melancholy with nervous energy and infectious ebullience, Love Language swings and swoons, embodying tipsy romanticism. It’s a fun evening of fine tunes, whether for waltzing or pogo-ing. Eternal Summers is also hosting a […]
DrFameus is the solo electronic music project of multi-talented musician Allen Aucoin, whose main gig is playing drums for the Philadelphia-based festival favorites Disco Biscuits.
Charlottesville’s Bella Morte is one of the most successful contemporary goth bands in the world. But unless you can name any contemporary goth bands, there’s a good chance you don’t know this.
Packing up and moving your entire livelihood from Georgia to New York City to seek a record deal could be considered a less than calculated career move. For alternative rock singer-songwriter Will McCranie, his east coast odyssey resulted in nothing less than a musical epic. In fact, transitions seem to inspire his best work, whether […]
What is perception? Philosophers, psychologists, and ophthalmologists have studied this question for years, but none have studied as vividly or exhaustively as visual artists. Subtle nuances of memory, culture, and aspiration within us dictate how we see the world and how we respond to it. In this way, every artist sees the world differently, but also […]
Give Kristen Wiig credit: She’s clearly not interested in repeating the Bridesmaids formula. And though Girl Most Likely has, at least on the surface, some plot threads in common with Wiig’s breakthrough movie—she’s a loser who moves home with her mother (Annette Bening)—it’s a decidedly more somber picture. That’s not to say Girl Most Likely […]