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Mystics and movie stars

In the sunroom of a manor home in Bucks County Pennsylvania, brother Vanya and adopted sister Sonia are sighing back...

ARTS Picks

Sibling rivalry is elevated to comic catastrophe in Live Arts’ production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and...

ARTS Pick: The Fantasticks

“It is September, before a rainfall…a perfect time to be in love,” sets the stage for The Fantasticks, the world’s...

ARTS Pick

Observing the fantastic world of The Convolution of Pip and Twig, it’s as if you’ve stepped through the looking glass...

ARTS Pick: Vodka Variations

UVA Drama presents an evening of “bite-size” dramas entitled Vodka Variations, adapted from short stories by Anton...

Note-worthy

Charlottesville is a music town, no doubt. What other small city can boast that it’s seen the likes of The Rolling...

The people’s diva

In January, Charlottesville audiences experienced Renée Fleming’s artistry on the big screen at The Paramount...

ARTS Pick: Crooked

Catherine Trieschmann’s earnest coming-of-age story Crooked sees teenagers Laney and Maribel wrestle with...

El conector

Born in Madrid, Fernando Operé calls himself “one of those weirdos”: a grad student who, upon receiving his Ph.D....

ARTS Pick: The Rover

17th century spy and playwright Aphra Behn’s work returns to the American Shakespeare Center with a production of The...