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(04/13/21 5:24am)
The leadership team of Shakespeare on the Lawn did not know what the spring production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” would look like come opening day — even when rehearsals started at the beginning of the semester. The pandemic and safety protocols shifted several of their past shows online, forcing the group to be creative about how to stage Shakespeare’s works using different online formats. This Friday and Saturday, the cast will take to the Zoom stage to perform the comedy.
(03/20/21 10:34pm)
The Virginia Festival of the Book — one of the first major programs in Charlottesville to be canceled due to the coronavirus last year — has returned this year with an all-virtual set of events. This year’s extended festival, which kicked off March 13 and runs until March 26, is an online cornucopia of free programming for readers, writers and all manner of book enthusiasts.
(07/22/20 12:40am)
The 33rd Virginia Film Festival will be held online due to “the evolving COVID-19 situation,” according to an announcement posted on their website and sent out via email Tuesday. The festival will still occur on its originally scheduled dates Oct. 21-25 but will shift to a virtual format for film screenings, panel discussions and Q&A sessions. The Virginia Film Festival is a program of the University of Virginia, with support from the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
(07/08/20 2:50am)
Student Council, along with the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the School of Architecture and the Departments of Art, Drama and Music hosted a town hall over Zoom on June 29 to address arts-related concerns and returning to Grounds in the fall. Over 120 people participated in the event, which included brief overviews of each department’s approach to the fall from administrators and a question and answer session.
(05/14/20 4:11am)
Cheers and applause rang from thirty-odd screens as family, friends and colleagues un-muted to wish graduating students in the English department’s Area Program in Literary Prose godspeed on their post-collegiate journeys. The program itself, created in 2014 as a parallel program to the Area Program in Poetry Writing, features a competitive application process, a two-year course of study and a creative thesis project to be completed in the second semester of students’ fourth year. Under normal circumstances, graduating students would read from their final projects and then enjoy a party. The coronavirus outbreak forced APLP Director Liz Denton to rethink how to best celebrate the seven writers from the class of 2020.
(05/14/20 1:09am)
As we all know, COVID-19 has changed the lifestyles of hundreds of millions. Due to increasing regulations, schools across America closed early, which in turn has resulted in the cancellation of many in-person graduation ceremonies. The University is no exception. For many of our graduating fourth year students, this pandemic means no graduation parties, pictures and celebrations with friends or Final Exercises on the Lawn until at least October. However, there are still many ways for fourth years to make the most out of their virtual graduations.
(05/03/20 7:19pm)
Now that classes are over and a difficult, half-online semester has come to a close, it’s a good time to read whatever you want. Maybe you did the hundreds of pages of reading for your politics class, maybe you skimmed a few pages or maybe you didn’t even buy the book — the fact of the matter is, it’s summer now. And instead of feeling pressured to feel any sort of way, Arts and Entertainment is bringing you three books with three very different moods, united by their compelling writing and just waiting for you to take them under your wing.
(03/19/20 7:08am)
When the University announced the switch to online classes for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus outbreak, professors and students from many different disciplines expressed apprehension about how smooth the transition from in-person to digital learning would be. Now that classes will be online for the remainder of the semester, professors and students must plan for the rest of the term. For departments like Studio Art and Drama, the change comes with a unique set of challenges.
(03/10/20 6:41pm)
The 26th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, originally scheduled for March 18-22 in Charlottesville, has been canceled following concerns and a University-issued warning about COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. In a statement issued March 10 and posted on the Festival website, the Festival staff stated the reasoning for the decision.
(02/26/20 8:05pm)
Here’s a fun fact — March is national sauce month! And not like swagger sauce, like cooking sauce. What does this have to do with reading? Little to nothing. But as the weather hopefully gets warmer, what better way to spend a self-care afternoon — after you honor the various sauces in your life — than with a new book? This month, Arts and Entertainment has selected a trio of reads that will make you reflect, laugh and learn.
(01/22/20 11:14pm)
2019 was a mess! Good thing it’s a new year — and what’s better for a new year than new music? Here are some of the projects to look forward to in 2020, and some old faithful tunes while you wait.
(01/13/20 4:16am)
The first way to start this article would have been to bury the lede. “The five best movies of 2019” would be the head, or something even punchier — “Hey Oscars, here are our picks” — followed by a defense of several films, filled with genuine admiration and wonder and a bit of humor in a relatable, nonchalant 20-something sort of way. I’d give a brief rundown of each movie, why the direction moved me or how I can still hear lines playing in my head after months of separation. Only when readers reached the third or fourth pick would they realize that all of the selected films are directed by women.
(01/08/20 3:29pm)
The University Programs Council announced in an Instagram post Monday afternoon that it will give away a pair or pairs of tickets to the DaBaby show at John Paul Jones Arena on March 14. All University students are eligible and the winner will be required to present their computing ID.
(12/04/19 10:16pm)
The Academy has long honored the accompaniment and original compositions of films, which is the reason the members of Three 6 Mafia — but still not Amy Adams — are all Oscar decorated. However, the Academy has never chosen to recognize a compilation of tracks for a film, which is a missed opportunity to highlight a broad array of movies and the emotional connections they create with old and new tunes.
(11/05/19 10:02pm)
They’re on the walls of normie boys’ dorm rooms around the world — unframed, probably off-center and purchased from a weird sale outside the bookstore the second week of classes. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton face down visitors in green-tinged light while wielding a bar of pink soap; Uma Thurman — with her now iconic black bob — smokes, apathetic, while splayed on a bed. Posters from films like “Fight Club” (1999) and “Pulp Fiction” (1994) have become popular and significant objects of expression for certain groups of college students more than two decades later — but what did this landscape look like when they hit theaters?
(11/01/19 6:05pm)
It started with three friends, a tour of Madame Tussauds wax museum in Times Square and an immediate recognition of injustice. When writer-comedians Sophie Mann, Val Bodurtha and Rebecca Shaw ventured to the hallowed halls of the New York City staple and perused the collection of uncanny replicas of celebrities, their amusement gave way to serious concern. The reason for their justified distress? Madame Tussauds has no wax statue of New York-based, world-renowned actor Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti.
(10/30/19 4:50pm)
When Ethan Hawke took to the stage at The Paramount Theater Saturday afternoon, the crowd expressed a restless excitement. Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival and vice provost for the Arts, had introduced the actor’s accomplishments — recounting the four Academy Award nominations, a Tony Award nomination and a canon of memorable films to his name. When the man himself appeared onstage to introduce the upcoming screening, his reputation preceded him. But as the program continued, Hawke’s candor and sincerity took centerstage.
(10/17/19 5:11am)
Haven’t you heard? We’re a football school now. Don’t worry about our recent losses — these ten songs capture the essence of the long uphill journey of Virginia Football and will get you pumped to watch your favorite team crush the remainder of this season. They might not aid you in your grieving process as you mourn the loss of “The Adventures of CavMan,” but they’ll definitely kill at your next pregame.
(09/18/19 8:25pm)
“This is a fun, unique little environment,” Kacey Musgraves said to the sold-out crowd at the Sprint Pavilion on Friday night. “This guy has amazing sparkly overalls I’m kinda jealous of.”
(09/04/19 12:48pm)
“She’s a beauty,” Christina Milian says, gazing longingly at the central fireplace in the old fashioned New Zealand inn. The camera cuts to a medium shot of the male lead, his piercing blue eyes fixed on Milian, who is in shallow focus. “She sure is,” the man says, clearly not talking about the fireplace but instead expressing his secret adoration for the former San Francisco marketing executive.