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Blues for an Alabama Sky
4/17 - 5/5/2024
Harlem, 1930. The Blues are getting bluer and the gin is running dry. A free-spirited Cotton Club singer has just been fired with nowhere left ...
GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK
5/11 - 6/2/2024
“I said I’d do it, and I’ve done it.” One fine spring day, Emma Gatewood, a 67-year-old mother and grandmother, told her children she was ...
Indecent
5/17 - 6/2/2024
A deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance—a play seen by some ...
CRY IT OUT
6/21 - 8/17/2024
Four months ago, Jessie was a corporate lawyer with a glamorous Manhattan life. Today she finds herself in a sleepy Long Island suburb, wearing dirty ...
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
6/15 - 8/17/2024
When Andy Dufresne is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in Shawshank prison, he must use his wits and newly forged friendships to keep ...
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL
9/20 - 11/2/2024
In The Trip to Bountiful , elderly Carrie Watts dreams of escaping her cramped apartment in Houston and returning to simpler times in her beloved ...
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY
9/14 - 11/8/2024
Famous playwright Oscar Wilde and actress Lillie Langtry (a.k.a. the Jersey Lily) have come to Baker Street seeking help from world famous detective Sherlock Holmes, ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
11/14 - 12/22/2024
Ebenezer Scrooge hates everything and everybody, but he hates Christmas most of all. Then one Christmas Eve he is haunted by the ghost of his ...
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Review: Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive with Adam Ben-David on Piano at Paramount Theater
by Kirk Cramer - April 29, 2024
A poignant and reflective journey through the celebrated artist's career and personal contemplations on life and mortality. Despite showing signs of vocal aging, Patinkin's mastery in blending song with deeply personal storytelling captivates the audience, making each song a narrative of its own. Th...
BWW Review: STRAIGHT WHITE MEN at Conciliation Lab
by Susan Haubenstock - December 06, 2021
Young Jean Lee's 2014 play made it to Broadway in 2018 and now afflicts the comfortable at Conciliation Lab....
BWW Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Virginia Repertory Theatre
by Susan Haubenstock - December 06, 2021
A sweet and sentimental Christmas play geared to fans of the classic movie...
BWW Review: WINTER WONDERETTES at Swift Creek Mill Theatre
by Susan Haubenstock - November 24, 2021
This crowd-pleaser is lightweight, fizzy fun—maybe not so much Champagne as sweet sparkling cider, but effervescent nonetheless....
BWW Review: SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS at The Illuminated Stage Company
by Susan Haubenstock - November 30, 2021
Michael and Lily are an odd couple--they irritate each other, but this play's familiar plot signals that they'll be great friends....
BWW Review: A CHRISTMAS KADDISH at Richmond Triangle Players
by Susan Haubenstock - November 22, 2021
For a change of pace, Richmond Triangle Players’ holiday offering is an original musical, “A Christmas Kaddish.” Using flashback elements from seasonal favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol,” the show takes an unusually serious look at life, death and love....
BWW Review: PIPELINE at Virginia Rep
by Susan Haubenstock - October 26, 2021
Dominique Morisseau's 2019 play--one of the most-produced plays of that year--hurls the audience into the emotions that surface when schoolteacher Nya's son Omari is threatened with being diverted from his private boarding school into the notorious school-to-prison pipeline....
BWW Review: THE NICETIES at The Conciliation Lab
by Susan Haubenstock - October 03, 2021
'The Niceties' is Eleanor Burgess's 2018 drama in which a white professor and a Black undergraduate argue over provocative issues of race and history--an excellent choice for The Conciliation Lab's season opener....
BWW Review: WAR IN PIECES at Firehouse Theatre
by Susan Haubenstock - September 30, 2021
Firehouse Theatre presents a program of four world-premiere one-act plays written by military veterans, taken from their lives in service in different eras....
BWW Review: VINCENT RIVER at Richmond Triangle Players
by Susan Haubenstock - September 28, 2021
Philip Ridley's emotional two-character play confronts homophobia and searing loss....
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