BWW Feature: MASH NOTE TO SIDE SHOW at Swift Creek Mill Theatre
by Susan Haubenstock - Jun 5, 2020
I remain awed by Swift Creek Mill's production of 'Side Show.' the 1997 musical focused on the real-life story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins born in 1908 who were exhibited as circus freaks and then became vaudeville stars.
BWW Review: Compelling and Controversial: APPROPRIATE at Cadence Theatre Delivers
by Jeremy Bustin - May 8, 2018
Cadence Theatre's latest offering is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Obie Award-winning play APPROPRIATE-a wildly subversive and disturbing piece of theatre that is anything but appropriate. Given the perfectly cluttered stage, patrons walking into the theatre may feel they are about to bear witness to a live episode of "Hoarders," but what unfolds over the next two-and-a-half hours is far more chaotic.
Cadence Theatre Company and Virginia Rep Present APPROPRIATE
by Julie Musbach - Apr 4, 2018
Cadence Theatre Company and Virginia Repertory Theatre are pleased to present Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Winner of the 2014-2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play and nominated for an Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Outer Critics Circle Award, Appropriate focuses on the reunion of the Lafayette family siblings as they return to their father's dilapidated Arkansas plantation to settle the estate after his death. Toni, Bo, and their long-time estranged brother Franz, struggle to reconcile personal memories with tangible evidence of their father's prejudice when they discover a photo album containing graphic, racist images among their father's belongings.
TheatreLAB to Present WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT This June
by BWW News Desk - Apr 29, 2015
TheatreLAB, Richmond's home for unexpected and evocative performance, is proud to partner with Richmond theater trailblazer Keri Wormald to present the regional premiere of White Rabbit Red Rabbit, Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour's international theatrical happening.