Hamner joins cast for fundraiser and time in hometown

Play On! — A New Virginia Theatre opens its latest musical, “The Boy Friend,” at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Theatre at Ix.

The problem isn’t necessarily in Johnson’s directorial vision, though there are some issues there.

Every performance is terrific.

Clinton Johnston directs William Shakes-peare’s tale of a general who marries a senator’s daughter and makes a dangerous enemy when he promotes someone else instead of the brilliant but bitter Iago.

Live Arts is taking a musical look at naked ambition starting tonight in its DownStage space.

Theater review of “Glengarry Glen Ross” at Live Arts

UVa Department of Drama shares a comedy hit—Larry Shue’s “The Foreigner.“

“Cavalia” much more than Cirque du Soleil with horses

The Second City brings goldern-anniversary show to Paramount

‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ opens at Live Arts

While many have spent the past months fighting over health care, there is a new project that addresses the health care needed from fighting.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Nina. She had a story to tell.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Nina. She had a story to tell.

It takes a special skill to get your friends to do your work for you … and to pay you for the privilege of doing that work.

Dancers, a baker’s dozen of them, will be diving into rehearsals today for a pair of performances of Martha Graham’s famed “Appalachian Spring” and other contemporary dance works at Wintergreen’s Evans Center.

Clearly, “Red, White and Tuna,” which opened in the Helms on Tuesday, is one of them. The tongue-in-cheek show is a successor to two other “Tuna” expeditions into silliness, and it’s just that - silly, and fun - with a little bit of social commentary sneaked in.

Heritage Theatre Festival is enjoying one of its most successful runs in years.

In 1960, Charles B. Griffith spent two days churning out nearly 100 pages of dialogue for a film about a talking, flesh-eating plant from outer space.

Let’s do the Time-Warp … for the first time.

Great plays often have elements in them that people can readily identify with, and even learn a life lesson or two from.

Like it or not, “Footloose” burst across the big screen with some of the most memorable songs of the 1980s. With an Oscar-nominated score, Bacon danced his way through “Holding on for a Hero,” “Let’s Hear it for the Boy,” “Heaven Help Me” and “Almost Paradise.” True. The soundtrack was No. 1 on the Billboard charts, with more than 15 million records sold.

Sometimes you just want to sit back and forget your troubles. And you can do that with “Pump Boys and Dinettes,” which opened Tuesday in the Helms.

He’d have hated “Oliver!,” Heritage Theatre Festival’s first summer offering, which opened Thursday in the Culbreth. Though there’s no dog on stage, there are, at various times, some 17 kids, all of them talented.

If you’re after a drive in the country with a pleasing destination, you may want to consider Thieving Magpie’s production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” currently running in Nelson County’s Hamner Theater, and soon to move performances outdoors to a couple of wineries in that area.

It’s a little taste of Americana, any way you slice it.

The new production of “Much Ado About Nothing” will be at the Hamner Theater. And at Mountain Cove Vineyard. And at Cardinal Point Vineyard.

If your summer vacation is just a few weeks old and you’re already bored, just be grateful you aren’t growing up in London in the 1830s. Instead of “Guitar Hero,” you and your friends just might be playing “Oatmeal Hero” right about now.

Edna-Jakki Miller first choreographed “Change” in the early 1980s, back in Cleveland. Fast-forward to 2009, when she watched how far her dance students had progressed, took a new look at the work and realized its time had come.

“Eurydice” can be seen at 8 p.m.Saturday and Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the UpStage space at Live Arts.