“Wow, I really don't know how sails work,” I said to myself at the Land Yacht table at the Science Museum of Virginia’s new exhibit, Going Places. My two daughters, their friend, and I had each just grabbed a miniature…
The foundation of modern biology is that life evolves over time through natural selection. Evidence confirming this scientific principle is on glorious display at Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out, an exhibit at the Science Museum of Virginia through September 3.…
Reviewed by Katherine O’Donnell For our family, summer means it’s time to visit Snoopy and the Charlie Brown gang at Kings Dominion’s Planet Snoopy. Planet Snoopy is paradise for Norah, who’s in elementary school, and Henry, who’s almost three.…
Richmond Triangle Players has a bona fide hit with its production of A Chorus Line. One of the six longest running shows on Broadway, A Chorus Line won nine Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in…
In the most recent of its collaborations with its sister museum in Montreal, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has brought the splendor of Napoleon Bonaparte’s court to Richmond in Napoleon: Power and Splendor. The curator of early decorative arts…
Due to popular demand, Quill Theatre is remounting its production of Romeo and Juliet, weekends through June 24 at Agecroft Hall, as part of the twentieth annual Richmond Shakespeare Festival. The stage is set at Agecroft Hall, a Tudor manor house…
If there is one thing we parents can all agree on, it’s that we don’t take enough time out of our busy lives for ourselves. So after taking the boys to a wonderful family play earlier in the weekend, I…
If you’re lucky enough to be spending Memorial Day weekend in Richmond, make plans to get over to the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen for the CharacterWorks production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, playing through Sunday. The…
As an actress, I know the main goal of any production is to tell the story while engaging the audience. The cast of SPARC’s Legally Blonde The Musical Jr. was having so much fun on stage that I was having…
In this unique take on Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy, Quill Theatre continues its tradition of asking audience members to reevaluate their original conception of what makes the Bard’s stories so resonant and impervious to the massive cultural differences between 1500s…
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