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Pick: Treasure Trunk Theater

Mother’s big helper: One silver lining of our new stay-at-home society is that it’s provided hours of quality family...

Top tier

What do you do when structures fail? When you did everything right, you played by the rules, yet the safety you...

ARTS Pick: Twelfth Night

Love and deception: Romance, comedy, and deceit come to the stage in the form of one of William Shakespeare’s most...

Game winner

The year is 1995, “Friends” is all the rage, and Tilly Evans is “the most uncommon form of nerd in the world”—a...

ARTS Pick: Follies

Grand stage: A Stephen Sondheim and Richard Rodgers collaboration would appear to be a sure bet for any Broadway...

Mourning the losses

Let’s pretend for a minute. It’s sometime in the not-too-distant future. Charlottesville is a thriving black kingdom,...

A new lease

Before every rehearsal and every performance, the cast and crew stand in a circle. They hold hands, close their eyes,...

ARTS Pick: Hello, Dolly!

Before Match.com and the like, we had matchmakers such as Dolly Gallagher-Levi, the exuberant leading lady in Hello,...

For the win

When you think of teenage girls, what do you picture? Perhaps you think of your own fast-talking children or your...

The journey forward

Shelby Marie Edwards still switches between “is” and “was” when talking about her mother. After all, it’s not yet two...