Tonight the play that has been taking the region by storm takes PVCC. Our American Ann Sisters—that’s like "ancestors"—features an all-star squad of local performers in the Performers Exchange Project. Read more about the project here.
A play that was originally produced for the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival gets a new lease on life at the Hamner Theater, beginning this weekend. Local playwright Peter Coy adopted Imaginary Letters from a book by Juilliard professor Michael White, wherein a biographer travels to Vienna to write a biography of the recently-deceased Mozart from family accounts.
Rock ’em, Amadeus.
When C-VILLE office manager Cris Edwards is not hosting an amazing live talk show called Cocktail Rhetoric at the Southern (every Tuesday!), he’s reviewing plays. This week we sent him to see UVA Drama’s performance of The Glass Menagerie. Here’s a sneak peak of at next Tuesday’s paper: It’s a fresh take on an old standard, and worth seeing.
A show tonight at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar explores everything that people seem to be into these days. Modern taste is dissected in a triangle below. Behold:
Crazy Horse-indebted jams
Posi-garage Lo-fi loops/"chillwave"
Roanoke’s Eternal Summers released a full-length, Silver, at the end of September that yours truly looks forward to purchasing.
What’re you up to?
