The Kingsmen will perform at 7 tonight at Morning Star Deliverance Tabernacle in Scottsville.

Eighteen acts and one $1,000 prize will add up to a busy evening at the “Virginia Got Talent?” Competition, which begins at 7 p.m. Saturday in Lane Auditorium at the Albemarle County Office Building.

If you’ve ever seen the popular musical “Hello, Dolly!” and wanted to know more about the Dolly behind the deals, Live Arts has all the answers.

The Virginia Consort and Consort Festival Chorus will be joined by a full orchestra and professional soloists for a concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.

Before recently settling in Charlottesville, singer-songwriter Bentley Rhodes spent more than a decade as a full-time musician in the indie hotbed of Athens, Ga.

Wednesday is deadline for ‘Women’s Wellness’

It’s time to shake a tail feather — or two, or three, or even a whole vine of them, if you’ve eaten enough magic berries. But one’s plenty.

The voice remains golden for her golden anniversary, and the guitar work is fluid, subtle and strong.

Like being in the loop? You can catch the juiciest new “Rumors” at the Theatre at Ix.

If a child were left alone in his home, or worse yet, physically beaten or called names and put down, who wouldn’t want to come to his aid?

Party launches new art blog

Larry the Cable Guy is the soul of romance. Just get a load of his recent Valentine’s Day plans for his sweetie.

When the going gets tough, the talented get going.

Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on with her smile, but it was her gruff boss who made television history.

Losing someone is not easy, especially when it’s a child who dies.

This Valentine’s Day weekend, roses still may be red, but it’s the guitars that are blue. Three different shades of blues, in fact, will fill tonight’s Guitar Blues concert at the Paramount Theater.

Men of constant sorrow? More like men of constant hits.

The skies aren’t so friendly for Cupid this year. The recession threatens to reduce many well-intentioned Valentine’s Day plans to a stress-fest hit parade of “Is That All There Is?” followed by “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.”

Where has all the music gone?

Tuck into Kluge-Ruhe’s latest Tucker Box Tour

To previous generations, J. Robert Oppenheimer was the man behind the atomic bomb. For a growing number of creative performing-arts minds today, he is the bomb.

Back in William Shakespeare’s day, actors often performed in their own street clothes, figuring out on their own where to stand and learning their craft on the job in front of audiences.

In this country most of us couldn’t imagine living in makeshift housing for a day, much less 10 years, and without running water or electricity.

Toasting February’s finest

Performing in front of 10,000 screaming fans in England’s Wembley Stadium isn’t a bad day at the office.

Ever wondered what your favorite radio shows look like?

Where some people see clutter, John Tesh saw opportunity.

Anybody who has been to the Virginia Film Festival in the past handful of years is familiar with the Adrenaline Film Project.

Dublin Philharmonic: The Irish Spectacular will bring Irish symphony music, folk instruments and vocalists to the Paramount Theater stage at 8 p.m. Monday.

The 155-member Charlottesville High School Symphony Orchestra brings together the CHS Orchestra and the top members of the CHS Wind Ensemble.