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Offstage Theatre recasts...

Though Jean Genet’s 1947 play The Maids (Les Bonnes) is known as a sadomasochistic, cruel and absurd work, director...

ARTS Pick: The Maids

Domestic roles and social identity form the nexus of Jean Genet’s The Maids, in which sisters in service mock,...

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Thirty-two years after an informal beginning, The Charlottesville Women’s Choir continues to perform in honor of its...

Kyle Dunnigan brings cast...

Craig Pullin, Deputy Trudy Wiegel’s bespectacled, slack-jawed boyfriend in the cult comedy “Reno 911!,” isn’t who...

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Experience the splendor of well-loved hits from film, theater and television with Pops at The Paramount, performed by...

Fire in the Belly masters...

Belly dancer Joy Rayman loves to improvise during a performance. During a recent gig at McGuffey Art Center, she was...

Live Arts closes its...

Right now, there’s a debate raging about the American dream. What does it look like? Who is it for? And what will we...

La Traviata pairs opera,...

Originally adapted by Giuseppe Verdi in 1853 from a play, La Dame aux Camélias, which itself had been adapted from...

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The New York Post describes The Great American Trailer Park Musical as “‘The Honeymooners’ meets The Best Little...

ARTS Pick: Sick of Stupid

Are you tired of incest jokes and fried food references? So are comedians Tom Simmons, Stewart Huff and Cliff Cash,...