Quill Theatre Presents ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
by Stephi Wild - Jan 10, 2020
Quill Theatre has announced that tickets are now on sale for the first mainstage show in the 2019-2020 Season, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Quill's Artistic Director, James Ricks.
Virginia Rep Presents CRIMES OF THE HEART At The Hanover Tavern
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 9, 2018
Virginia Rep opens the Southern Gothic comedy Crimes of the Heart on Friday, July 20 at the Hanover Tavern, the final show of the 2017-18 Hanover Season. Written by Beth Henley, this American theatre classic follows the Magrath sisters as they reunite to escape their past in the hopes of a better tomorrow, however, their present reality offers hilarious and troublesome obstacles.This Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a touching and irreverent look at sisterhood and what it means to find yourself amidst despair. The show runs through August 26, 2018 at the Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, Hanover, Virginia 23069.
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.
Photo Flash: First Look at Firehouse's AN OAK TREE
by Julie Musbach - Apr 4, 2018
Tim Crouch's play AN OAK TREE is a unique performance experience that revolves around a traveling hypnotist who discovers that the volunteer he's called up from the audience for his show is the father of a girl he accidentally killed in a car accident. As Crouch explains, for the grieving father 'nothing now is what it is. It's like he's in a play - but he doesn't know the words or the moves.'
BWW Review: Cadence Theatre's RABBIT HOLE Examines Life After Tragedy
by Jeremy Bustin - May 5, 2017
'Things just aren't nice anymore.' People have different coping mechanisms for grief, a message that is profoundly on display in Cadence Theatre's production of David Lindsay Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama RABBIT HOLE. The show runs through May 20 at Virginia Repertory Theatre.
Firehouse Theatre Announces ALBEE FEST A Tribute to a Great American Playwright
by Julie Musbach - Mar 9, 2017
Firehouse Theatre presents ALBEE FEST as a tribute to one of America's greatest playwrights, Edward Albee. ALBEE FEST takes us from the sunny side of drama with THE SANDBOX and FINDING THE SUN, to disgruntled family struggles in MARRIAGE PLAY and COUNTING THE WAYS, to the indignant rantings of THE MAN WHO HAD THREE ARMS, and coming back to the beginning with THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY. These six little known works by the master dramatist will be performed in script-in-hand readings with a company of some of Richmond's most talented theatre artists within a festival environment designed by Tennessee Dixon and Bill Miller and directed by Jon Kretzu, Deejay Gray, and Zack Owen. Two companion events will round out the festival -- a special Edward Albee cabaret with Starlet Knight and Anthony Dowd, and Strange Bedfellows: Albee Edition. Additional festival events include Albee's performance installation KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO'S THERE, and cocktail parties after each performance.
Photo Flash: First Look at THE BOATWRIGHT at Firehouse Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Feb 1, 2017
Winner of the 2014 AACT NewPlayFest, THE BOATWRIGHT is about hiding out, running away, and breaking through. Two men, generations apart and lonely in very different ways, force each other to confront the isolation in their own lives by navigating as best they can by the light of the other's faith.
THE BOATWRIGHT Sails into Firehouse Theatre Next Month
by BWW News Desk - Jan 2, 2017
As part of the Richmond Acts of Faith Festival, Bo Wilson's THE BOATWRIGHT receives its regional premiere as part of Wilson's yearlong residency at Firehouse. Winner of the 2014 AACT NewPlayFest, THE BOATWRIGHT is about hiding out, running away, and breaking through.