U.Va. drama production “Confesses” more questions than answers
By Vondrae McCoy | October 9, 2014This Thursday, the drama department will begin the run of its first production of the season: “Every Tongue Confess,” directed by Assoc.
This Thursday, the drama department will begin the run of its first production of the season: “Every Tongue Confess,” directed by Assoc.
The Paramount Theater screened the London National Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’s classic “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Sunday, Sept.
A collaboration between master of jazz Tony Bennett and flamboyant pop artist Lady Gaga seems unlikely.
Arts and Entertainment recently caught up with Kyle Woolard, lead singer of Charlottesville-based folk-rock group The Anatomy of Frank.
“Doctor Who” returned in August with a new iteration of its time-traveling, world-saving titular character.
Listening to electronic artist SBTRKT forces you to re-evaluate what makes a good and entertaining musical artist.The first listen will catch any music appreciator off guard.
Rubblebucket performed at The Jefferson Theater on the Downtown Mall two weeks ago. Arts & Entertainment sat down with lead singer and saxophonist Kalmia Travers to hear her thoughts on Charlottesville, the band’s recently released album “Survival Sounds” and Rubblebucket’s budding career.
After a long, grueling summer, “The Good Wife” returned to air Sept. 21 ? coming off the critically acclaimed fifth season, the sixth season premiere of this series had a lot to live up to.
Last Tuesday, Kendrick Lamar dropped “i”. In this age of Internet music, the release of a new single is a fairly unremarkable event, but Lamar’s “i” is easily one of the most hotly anticipated drops of the year.
On Tuesday, the University was pleased to welcome two world-renowned guests in librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, who collaborated to write a number of renowned musicals for Broadway and London’s West End.
In a moving and poignant exhibit, Russell Lord ? curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art ? brings a different artistic angle to the Fralin Museum of Art as he curates “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument,” an exhibit open until Dec.
Fresh off a year in jail, Chris Brown returns to the world of pop music with latest album “X.” After two years without a full-length album and a string of run-ins with the law, Brown had a lot to prove when returning to the studio.
DC’s Verizon Center was packed floor to ceiling for The Black Keys last Thursday, every fan engaged in the sound of the band.
Vacationer ? the dreamy, island-minded indie brainchild of Kenny Vasoli and group Body Language ? has been steadily climbing the ladder to success after the release of their 2012 full-length “Gone” and this summer’s sunny “Relief.” Creating a hybrid genre they brand as “nu-hula,” the band brought their peace of mind to The Southern to dazzle up a dreary Monday.
The slight fall breeze and last few rays of summer sunshine marked the mood Friday evening at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion, as students and community members filled the seats and laid out blankets on the grass for a night of feel-good music from The Head and the Heart.
alt-J has done it again ? another of album overriding any low expectations set for this small band from Leeds.
As University students and community members headed downtown to the Tom Tom Founders Festival event Friday night, the streets buzzed with chatter as the fall block party amassed a couple hundred participants to celebrate art and innovation in the Charlottesville community.From families to young adults, students to dogs, a large cross-section of interested parties came out to the McGuffey Art Center, blocking off 2nd Street for the celebration.
Pop-rock can be tricky. When done right, it synthesizes elements of both pop and rock into a catchy hybrid sound, with both an aggressive edge of rock and crowd-pleasing hooks.
Most of the best episodes of “South Park” meet two key criteria: they satirize at least two completely unrelated things, and they focus on Eric Cartman.This formula works because “South Park” is at its funniest when at its most absurd and most biting.
Jason Burke has become a central figure in Charlottesville’s singer-songwriter folk music scene.