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ARTS Pick: Twelfth Night

Feed your intellect and a person in need at Thieving Magpie’s good-WILL-cville production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth...

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This year’s Fall Experimental Dance Concert at UVA promises to leap the barre by integrating high tech with modern...

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Dance and step complement each other like peanut butter and jelly—and the Best of Both Worlds Dance Competition finds...

A teller of truths

“I think that this film gains its emotional integrity from the fact that everybody is speaking the truth. It was very...

Perspective shift

Local playwright, actor, UVA drama lecturer, and wellness coach Denise Stewart is on a sugar fast. “I’m on day four...

Rising Star Awards allow...

Take a moment to remember what you were like at age 16—whether it was learning to drive, passing a chemistry test, or...

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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust—a series of church burnings sets UVA Drama’s new season in motion with Marcus Gardley’s...

ARTS Pick: Fiesta del Sol

Despite being a ballet company, there are no tutus or relevés in this celebration of movement by the Latin Ballet of...

ARTS Pick: Smallprov

Big laughs come out in small spaces when improv is the stage—at least that’s what Smallprov sets out to accomplish....

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If a high seas adventure delivered in iambic pentameter isn’t enough to get you off the couch, then maybe the added...