A bowl of candy and a horror movie may be the quickest way to get in the Halloween spirit in a pinch, but there’s also a wealth of TV series out there that capture the essence of the season and offer a welcome change of pace.
Over 200 years after its publication, Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” remains wildly popular with modern audiences. Now, University Drama is putting on its own production of Hamil’s play.
In a world of constant stimulation and information, where can humanity be found? Live Arts explores this question in its season’s opening production, "Love and Information" by Caryl Churchill.
Written by Asst. Spanish Prof. Fernando Valverde and directed by Spanish Prof. Fernando Operé, “Flamenco y Exilio” wove Antonio Machado’s story with flamenco performances from singer Juan Pinilla and guitarist David Caro, both of whom traveled to Charlottesville from Granada, Spain for the performance.
Funded by U.Va. Arts, the Rap Lab at U.Va. is a collaborative hip-hop space where all are welcome.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection hosted an audience in Campbell Hall Friday night for a lecture from Dr. Louise Hamby, an American research fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Spooky, scary images send shivers down your spine at The Great Rotumpkin.
Remixing, riffing, playing with memes: These are artistic modes that we sometimes think of as belonging to our own time, but artmaking has involved self-conscious imitation for a lot longer, and in a lot more places—including several hundred years ago in Asia, as revealed in “Earthly Exemplars,” a small exhibition of Buddhist art now showing at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA.
In Sonic Spheres, the opening show of the Charlottesville Symphony’s 48th season, eight orchestra members will trade their French horns for harmonicas to imitate what celestial vibrations might sound like for a performance of “Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).”
Finding My Voice takes audiences on a remarkable behind-the-scenes journey of Kathleen Turner’s extensive and well-documented career. Peppered with songs from the great American songbook, Kathleen Turner croons hits including “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, “I’d Rather Be Sailing”, “On the Street Where You Live”, “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, showcasing her trademark husky voice.
Two years after defying the odds and delivering twin girls at the University of Virginia Medical Center, a quadriplegic woman from Culpeper is sharing her story on the big screen at the Virginia Film Festival next month.
Virginia Humanities announced that Kalela Williams is serving as the new Director of the Virginia Center for the Book. The Virginia Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, works across the Commonwealth to unite communities of readers, writers, artists, and book lovers. It is the home of the Virginia Festival of the Book, which happens every year in March, as well as a book arts studio located in Charlottesville’s Jefferson School City Center.
