Macbeth Comes to U of R

Style weekly’s summary of Richmond’s Fall theater lineup highlights a season full of dark and twisted shows. In the Near West End, check out the classic,”Macbeth,” Nov. 15-18 at the University of Richmond. But Style does at great job highlighting the whole local season, so why not drive a little farther and see them all? Swift […]

Style weekly’s summary of Richmond’s Fall theater lineup highlights a season full of dark and twisted shows. In the Near West End, check out the classic,”Macbeth,” Nov. 15-18 at the University of Richmond.
But Style does at great job highlighting the whole local season, so why not drive a little farther and see them all?

Swift Creek Mill Theater raised some eyebrows this month by opening its 2007-08 season with “Urinetown: The Musical.” A show about a town awash in — well, you know — seemed a bit edgy for a company best known for its feel-good musicals and slamming-door farces.

But as it turns out, the Mill was just setting the stage for an autumn full of dark, deviant and downright twisted shows — a veritable cavalcade of oddity that will challenge many local theatergoers. When the story of a child who looks like a rodent (Theatre IV’s “Stuart Little” (Oct. 5-21) seems comparatively normal, you know there’s weirdness afoot this season.
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