Reviewed by Karen Schwartzkopf It’s important that the first work you and your kids see, Red Reeds from internationally renowned artist Dale Chihuly, is outside, springing from the reflecting pool at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Red Reeds…
Reviewed by Margaret Thompson New York City’s loss is our gain, Richmond. When former Guitar Magazine editor, Harvey Newquist, discovered that the U.S. didn’t have a guitar museum, he set out to change that. The Big Apple, home of…
Reviewed by Margaret Thompson I knew I would be reminded of a lot of historical facts that had escaped me when I went to see Young Tom Jefferson at Historic Hanover Tavern. I didn’t know that I’d learn so…
Truly a character for all ages, odds are really good the tweens or teens in your life have already caught the terrific Sherlock adaptation on BBC, or Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock on the big screen, or CBS’s exploration of…
When you hear that a script deals with a school shooting, you don’t expect to laugh during the production. But I laughed – and I’m talking out loud – frequently during Full Circle Theatre Project’s production of From Up Here.…
I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon. But Grand Canyon Adventure sparked in me a haunting familiarity with the native people, the early explorers, and modern-day environmental activists. From the opening landscape montages, the entire IMAX dome became a helicopter,…
Reviewed by Robin Schwartzkopf We don’t get down to the Science Museum of Virginia very often, but To the Arctic – an iMAX film that transports you to the top of the world – reminded me of why we should.…
The title of this quirky and very funny play by award-winning playwright Lee Blessing is also the name of the Texas bar where the romantic family comedy takes place. I’m a natural laugher. It doesn’t take much to get me…
Unsure of exactly what to expect (or how I’d react to what I saw), I headed off to the highly anticipated traveling exhibit that is making its Virginia debut at the Science Museum of Virginia, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds…
A Parent’s Review Dear mom or dad of a teen: If your little darling was the sixth grader with a serious boyfriend or girlfriend, or the 11-year-old who inadvertently stumbled upon low-octane porn sites every other time he was in…
