My latest adventure around town was taking my two girls to visit Planet Shark: Predator or Prey, the new exhibition at the Science Museum of Virginia. Along with the exhibition, the film Great White Sharks has returned to The Dome…
It has been years since we’ve had the opportunity to see and learn about pollinators in the Lewis Ginter Conservatory, and it did not disappoint. Richmond families will certainly want to put M&T Bank Butterflies LIVE! on their activity bucket list.…
A new stage has been set for the Richmond Shakespeare Festival on the back lawn of Agecroft Hall, the Tudor manor house that was built in the late 15th century in England, and in the early 20th century, dismantled, crated,…
If you’re expecting to have a ball when you see Mamma Mia! at Virginia Repertory Theatre, you won’t be disappointed. This fun and light-hearted production will turn you into a “Dancing Queen,” as this musical takes you on a…
A play about death has the potential to be a downer, a huge cliché – or both. Everybody, a play presented by Cadence Theater Company, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and performed at Virginia Reparatory Theatre’s Theatre Gym is instead funny,…
Virginia Rep’s Hanover Tavern world premiere of Bonnie and Claire gives audiences a glimpse of what it’s like to grow older as seen through the eyes of two sisters in their silver years and their young adult niece. The play,…
There are a lot of hard jobs in the world, especially now. One that is made to look easy by the cast of Beehive: The 60s Musical, now playing at Virginia Repertory Theater, is simultaneously singing, dancing, and acting in…
Did you find the study of Greek classics in high school confusing and stressful? I thought so. In An Iliad, an Obie Award-winning, one-actor play based on Homer’s The Iliad, actor Alec Beard is a masterful storyteller who makes this…
Fiddler on the Roof at Altria Theater is a masterfully staged retelling of an ever-relevant classic. The show follows Tevye, a Jewish dairyman, and his family, who live in the village of Anatevka. As Jews in Imperial Russia, they live…
Hanover Tavern is a space best suited for intimate theatre, and Dear Jack, Dear Louise is a remarkably intimate piece of theatre. In The Rep’s latest show at the historic stage in Hanover County, Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig shares…
