David Vaughn Straughn’s new play Tanesha debuts at the Jefferson School

Two decades ago, Terésa Dowell-Vest embarked on a research project. After attending grad school in California, the...

  As we adjust to life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll likely turn to the arts—a favorite poem, a beloved album, a...

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

By Leslie M. Scott-Jones Walking into the downstage theater at Live Arts, the sounds are familiar. Vocal warm-ups...

She’d been here before. During a recent rehearsal of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a feeling of...

Have you ever imagined watching a movie or stage play about your own life? Drama, humor and self-reflection are sure...