Arts

Wearing your heart on your sleeve can take you pretty far with today’s music audience.

To travel from Newport, Rhode Island to Seattle, Washington with your family–who are all together for the first time since an emotionally wracking divorce a decade-and-a-half ago–most people of sound mind would tackle the 3000 miles in an airplane, or a car, or a train. Emmy award winning documentary film producer/book author/decorated journeyman Sprague Theobald […]

Fifteen albums comprise an impressive repertoire for any musician. Make that artist a contemporary jazz pianist surrounded by critical enthusiasm and the reverence sky-rockets.

If you think that 107 minutes seem too few to screen eight very different films, the Virginia Film Festival wants you to know that you’re wrong. With eight original, exciting, and even provocative short pieces by seven directors, the Shorts Program contains more movies in under two hours than most people see in a week. […]

As if the truncated schedule of putting on a live show didn’t generate enough stress, a small assemblage of theater stalwarts have decided to put on The Red Eye Theatre Festival. Seven scripts, selected by a jury of playwrights, are given to seven directors and 25 actors in four locations across the United States. At 8am, […]

Colors and patterns have adorned the path Maryann Lincoln follows to inspiration since the start of her creative journey. Carefully choosing her fabrics, the fiber artist blends materials to compose pieces ranging in tone from peaceful and wave-like to sparklingly bright. Whether stitching together a city scene or a natural landscape, she reaches artistic harmony […]

Four County Players stages the amateur world premiere of Woman in a Tiled Room by local playwright Shawn B. Hirabayashi. The two-act, two-character dramatic thriller takes place in an abandoned bathhouse in New York City and plays out the intense and increasingly bizarre relationship between Piers and her recently acquired man-friend Mart.

Longtime attendees may notice that this year’s Virginia Film Festival does not have the star power of recent years, but the content looks as strong as ever, with a line-up that includes several notable, well-established filmmakers, and a number of films that will be of particular interest to locals.

Eduardo Montes-Bradley drove nearly 50,000 miles up and down the East Coast with his family, searching for a place to put down roots. The Argentine-born filmmaker settled on Charlottesville for a variety of reasons—the University, the proximity to mountain and ocean, and the public schools. “There was a series of factors but the most important […]

Who says you can’t celebrate a holiday for two weekends in a row? Halloween may be on the 31st, but the Virginia Film Festival continues the fright with creepy offerings to audiences every night during its four days in Charlottesville beginning on Thursday. THURSDAY:The waters haven’t been this unsafe since Jaws in Thursday night’s mockumentary […]