I feel compelled to remind everyone caught up in ONE SHINING MOMENT OF AMAZING RVA HOOPS MANIA! that the University of Richmond Spiders have history on their side when it comes to being the local pretty, pretty princess of March Madness.
The small-but-mighty Henley Street Theatre wraps up their 2009-2010 season with an ambitious adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 classic, A Doll’s House, running through May 29.
Two months. Don Baker makes a deal with his overbearing mother — he has two months to prove he can make it on his own, or he has to leave his shabby, charming apartment in the East Village and return home to Scarsdale. Seems easy enough, but there’s one small thing to consider: he’s completely blind. (Ticket giveaway inside!)
Before you see A Servant of Two Masters, currently playing at the Henley Street Theater, do some research. Written in 1743 by Carlo Goldoni, the comedy’s style is derived from mid-16th century commedia dell’arte. It’s quite literally old-school.
What better way to celebrate the season than spending an evening soaking up some quality entertainment? Here’s the lowdown on all things holiday in Richmond’s wonderful world of performing arts.
Any way you spell it, The Barksdale Theater has a hit with their production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
This Is How It Goes by Neil LaBute is a deceptively simple minefield of racism, sexism, and classism that will leave your brain churning and you squirming uncomfortably in your seat. In the end, the play makes it clear that in matters of black and white, everything is really just one big grey area.
Barksdale Theatre’s Boleros for the Disenchanted wants very much for you to believe it is a sweet comedic romance deftly woven with moments of sadness and harsh reality. Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it doesn’t. But it definitely makes you think.
With just a few days left in the show’s run, Scott Wichmann is still going strong as the lead in Barksdale’s Fully Committed, his final Richmond role before heading off for the U.S. Navy Reserve.
“Have you heard the news?” shouted my cab driver through the plastic divider in the late evening hours of June 25th. “The king is dead, he is gone.” And then he began to cry.
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