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Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Directed by Jeffrey Meanza, To Open July 21 at Helms Theatre
Drama

Virginia Theatre Festival Announces Cast and Design Team for Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise

The Virginia Theatre Festival has announced that its upcoming production of Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, the heartwarming two-person play about a World War II courtship conducted entirely by mail, will star Suzannah Herschkowitz and Jordan Sobel. Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which captures the story of the Tony Award-winning playwright’s own parents’ cross-country, pen-and-paper-powered love story, will be directed by Jeffrey Meanza. The show will open on Friday, July 21 at Helms Theatre.

https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/casting-announcement-for-dear-jack-dear-louise/

an image of Ashley Park behind the desk at WXTJ
Music

Students on Air at U.Va.’s Underrated Freeform Radio Station

Operating out of a snug studio one mile west of the Rotunda, University students are on the air from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily on 100.1 FM. WXTJ is the University’s freeform student radio station, and it’s been a beloved home to student DJs for nearly 10 years.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/04/students-on-air-at-u-va-s-underrated-freeform-radio-station

an image of hanging red dresses
Visual Art

Eye-Catching REDress Project Memorializes Indigenous Women

The REDress Project, launched in 2010 by the mixed-ancestry Métis artist Jamie Black, honors Indigenous victims in the United States and Canada.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/eye-catching-redress-project-memorializes-indigenous-women

an image of poets Rita Dove and Safiya Sinclair
Creative Writing

Two Poets Who Debated Every Syllable

Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/rita-dove-safiya-sinclair.html

AINSLEY SEIGER, Cabaret, Virginia Theatre FestiVAL LOGO
Drama

Law and Order: Organized Crime Series Regular, Ainsley Seiger, to Lead Virginia Theatre Festival Production of Cabaret

The Virginia Theatre Festival has made its first casting announcement for its upcoming 2023 season-opening production of Cabaret. Ainsley Seiger leads the cast as Sally Bowles. Seiger returns to the Virginia Theatre Festival stage after having been seen in 2018 productions of A Chorus Line and The Cocoanuts. Seiger is a graduate of UNCSA and became a series regular on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime in early 2021, playing Detective Jet Slootmaekers.

https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/casting_announcement_cabaret/

an image of models walking down a runway in fashionable outfits
Visual Art

CRAVE Builds a Creative Community Through Fashion

CRAVE — standing for Creative, Raw, and Very Edgy — combines design, performance and spirit to produce a fashion show each spring featuring student performances, production and choreography.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/04/crave-builds-a-creative-community-through-fashion?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

The UVa University Singers and conductor Michael Slon will present “Considering Matthew Shepard,” a 2016 oratorio by Craig Hella Johnson that covers musical ground from country to Broadway to gospel to modern minimalism. Karin Elsner
Music

UVA Singers to Present Oratorio Honoring Matthew Shepard 25 Years After Murder

When the University of Virginia University Singers perform a new oratorio on Friday evening, audience members can find their way into the story of Matthew Shepard through a variety of musical genres.

https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/music/uva-singers-to-premiere-oratorio-honoring-matthew-shepard-25-years-after-murder/article_76b94df4-d956-11ed-866f-c77d0b79dd58.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Tina Fey by Miller Mobely
Drama

Years After She First ‘Met My People,’ Tina Fey Readies for Return to Grounds

Without ever having stepped foot on the University of Virginia’s Grounds before, Tina Fey nervously moved into Metcalf House, the dorm she would soon call home, in the fall of 1988. “I didn’t grow up in a world where people went on college tours,” Fey said. “You kind of looked at a paper catalog about colleges, and then you would try to get in somewhere.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/years-after-she-first-met-my-people-tina-fey-readies-return-grounds

Spring Dance Concert
Dance

Department of Drama’s Dance Program to Present Spring Dance Concert

The Dance Program is pleased to present the work of two guest choreographers this semester: Cara Hagan and Ruth Olga Sherman. The Spring Dance Concert is on April 20, 21, and 22 at 8:00 p.m. in the Ruth Caplin Theatre. The spring concert will feature both live and screendance works by students, faculty, and guest artists for an evening of dance that explores multiple perspectives and themes through the practice of performance.

April 14, 2023