Theatres have been grappling with how to open their doors and present productions since the onset of COVID-19. The question is how can they make it work and work safely? Firehouse Theatre is taking a novel approach in presenting its…
Like other moms during the pandemic, Laura Hayes is trying to balance her 8-year-old daughter’s schoolwork with running a full-time, home-based business. “It definitely makes it challenging to run my business,” says Hayes, who owns Livi Lu’s, a boutique-style bakery…
When members of Richmond-based a capella trio, Resound, quit their jobs in 2018 to devote all their time to music, they didn’t foresee that just two years later they would be performing on one of the biggest stages in the…
Catherine Lowry Franssen, PhD, could have taken a sabbatical from Longwood University to work on research like many professors. Instead she chose to join the staff at Science Museum of Virginia as scientist in residence. Franssen, who has a psychology…
Award-winning Italian conductor Valentina Peleggi was introduced to the Richmond Symphony when her mentor, conductor Marin Alsop, was associate conductor. Peleggi admired the symphony for being the first orchestra to believe in Alsop before she was a star. “This community had the…
Rebecca Lewis refers to herself as a paid disease detective. “That’s what I like to think of myself,” says Lewis, senior epidemiologist for Henrico County. “I put the puzzle pieces together as to how people got sick.” Lewis works with…
Mindy Conklin was determined her organization’s signature 5K race wouldn’t become a victim of the COVID-19 crisis. Conkin, founder and executive director of Hitting Cancer Below the Belt (HCB2), converted the eighth annual Boxer Brief 5K to Boxer Brief “Stay Away”…
Even though stay-at-home guidelines are still in place, artists Hamilton Glass and Matt Lively have found an innovative way to collaborate and create murals around Richmond. “I always crave collaborating,” says Glass, who has a variety of public art/murals around…
The phrase “the show must go on” has new meaning for Virginia Rep’s upcoming season. It will be “accompanied by new expectations,” says Nathaniel Shaw, the theatre’s artistic director. “Business as usual will be different. We look forward to exceeding…
Registered nurse Michelle Vaughan was deeply saddened when COVID-19 restrictions regarding family visitations went into effect in the critical care unit at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital. Vaughan, who works in the ICU, could see how heartbreaking it was…
