Charlottesville is known for having one of the highest number of restaurants per capita in the nation — the Huffington Post ranked the city 14th — but what’s hidden among these eateries is even more spectacular.
As first-year College student Victoria Tovig prepares to step into the role of Elle Woods this weekend, she has one solemn warning for her audience: “expect lots of pink.” Still, not everything has been rosy ahead of First Year Players’ anticipated production of “Legally Blonde: the Musical.” Director Richard Farella, a fourth-year Engineering student, chose to put on this musical despite the formidable obstacles, ranging from complicated set requirements to a need for impressive vocal talent.
Sometimes, it’s not just about what you see, but also what you hear. Frenzied voices in heated argument, chaotic chants, screeching rockets, The Beach Boys and the bone-chilling echo of a single gunshot took the stage during the University production of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” This alluring but unconventional soundtrack took the place of the Gershwin melodies of Drama Department shows past, consistently keeping audience members on the edge of their seats. Beyond its auditory experience “Enemy” is an impressive culmination of both dramatic and comedic features, which together help craft a powerful storyline that won’t easily be forgotten. The play, adapted for the University’s Ruth Caplin Theater by Assoc.
Award-winning documentary “Our Nixon,” part of the Virginia Film Festival, drew a mixed crowd of students and Charlottesville locals to Newcomb Theater on Sunday afternoon.
Distance sucks. There’s really no other way to put it. Sure, with the Internet expediting communication and shows like “Catfish” glamorizing transcontinental romance, you’d think it’d be easy to surmount hundreds of miles in pursuit of love.
The Virginia Film Festival has a rich tradition of bringing the silver screen’s best to Charlottesville, and this year was no exception with “Philomena” as a shining beacon.
At the tender age of 5 years old, my grandfather took me to see Disney on Ice: Beauty and the Beast.
Sprinkled throughout the crowd of 14,000 screaming Taylor Swift fans were illuminated signs covered in various combinations of glitter, Christmas lights and beloved lyrics.
The old photograph hanging in the Fralin Museum wouldn’t seem special on its own. It’s just a 1930s group shot: a bunch of people on a ship deck, gathered around a lifebuoy that reads “SS Europa.” They are actually the African-American cast of a 1932 film, “Black and White,” en route to Moscow for filming.
Thirty-four original Ansel Adams photographs on display at the Fralin Museum bring visitors through his professional career, from his early work in the 1920s up through his ’50s masterpieces.
Fans of folk and country duo The Civil Wars will likely never hear their eponymous second album live.
What makes a car chase movie special? Certainly not what Courtney Solomon’s latest flick “Getaway” presented.
Legendary director Woody Allen is back again with another film exemplifying his storytelling prowess, “Blue Jasmine.” Taking place in modern-day San Francisco, the film focuses on the perils of financial downfall.
The University is home to a variety of notable alumni, but it’s not every day that current Wahoos can enjoy former students’ career choices on the radio.
The Lawn will come alive Wednesday as students congregate to take part in one of the University’s most treasured traditions: Rotunda Sing.
Let’s forget for a minute that John Mayer spent his early career as a brooding ladies’ man, that he has dated every vapid starlet in Hollywood from Jessica Simpson to Taylor Swift and that his early singing style was so breathy he might have in fact swallowed several microphones.
Everyone is talking about “Orange is the New Black,” the Netflix original series released mid-July based on a memoir of the same name.
Few movies have the ability to be both charming and grittily realistic at the same time, but August’s limited release indie ‘The Spectacular Now’ masterfully pulls off this feat.
Some people say that television rots the brain. I never believed this to be true until I flipped through channels and came across ABC Family’s ‘The Vineyard.’ After watching one episode of the hour-long program, I felt my intelligence insulted by the contrived and shallow premise.
The words “pompous” and “pretentious” are bound to come up in any discussion of Aaron Sorkin, given the award-winning writer’s propensity for stuffing his characters’ mouths with the sort of pseudo-intellectual babble you might expect to hear in a high school politics classroom.
