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 […]
Chroma Projects’ current featured artist, Dymph de Wild, works in a variety of media (drawing, printmaking, photography, video, performance, sculpture), juggling different approaches and moving from the randomness and spontaneity of her sculptures to more restrained and controlled works on paper. Her balancing act, “In the Field, Humanature, & Elemental Encounter,” is on view through […]
See the Gospels as you’ve never seen or heard them before in Four County Player’s revival of the hit musical Godspell, which tells Jesus’ life story with a dash of rock’n’roll. Based on the Gospel According to Matthew, the energetic and heartfelt retelling centers on a series of parables from the Bible interspersed with some […]
Meet Jen, Jacob, Jimmy, Jon, Jason, and…Dave. A local work in progress since 2004, Jennifer Stuart & The Design has one tradition—creativity fueled by a melting pot of countless musical influences. Don’t expect a resemblance between sets, because the group constructs each soul-funk-jazz-rock song with its own stamp of clever, upbeat originality, just like its […]