Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf Everybody knows Andy Warhol. Many have heard of Roy Lichtenstein. But Tom Wesselmann? Hmmm. If the name doesn’t strike a chord, the artwork should soon inspire a symphony of voices in your family. Pop Art and…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf Without special focus, it is easy to miss a spectacular sight in nature. One of the smallest creatures and the most beautiful, the Monarch butterfly possesses magnificent talents and traits that can easily go unnoticed…
Reviewed by Susanna Wu-Pong The Tony Award winning play by John Logan, Red, is the fictionalized tale of American abstract artist Mark Rothko. Though the artistic ambition is less familiar to us than the more familiar worship of financial…
Reviewed by Tony Farrell They could be any modern American family—having trouble sleeping, waking up from edgy dreams, shuffling off to work and school each morning with a home-packed lunch and a stomach full of dread. But even as…
Reviewed by Fiona Bessey-Bushnell The world renowned Cashore Marionettes’ Life in Motion at Virginia Rep’s Children’s Theatre of Virginia at Willow Lawn is an amazing performance. Puppet master Cashore uses the marionettes to tell a series of breathtaking and…
Reviewed by Elizabeth Scott In a whimsical and energetic adaption, the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community (SPARC) performs E.B. White’s classic children’s novel Charlotte’s Web. The cast boasts an impressive group of elementary and middle school children…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay The latest children’s production at the historic Swift Creek Mill Theatre is a retelling of one of childhood’s most memorable tales. Young Jack, dispatched by his mother to the market with a cow to sell,…
Reviewed by Lia Tremblay The latest production at Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Honky-Tonk Angels weaves its story through separate lives that eventually collide. Three women — a disgruntled housewife in Texas, a fed-up secretary in California and a lonely…
Reviewed by Susanna Wu-Pong Director James Ricks of Henley Street Theatre does it again. From the opening scene through the climactic ending, Ricks’ production of Julius Caesar, with its tangle of deceit, betrayal, and vindication, is riveting. The pace of this…
