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The Drama Club of PVCC presented The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon as the 2023 Spring show on April 7 and 8 in the evenings at V. Earl Dickinson Main Stage Theatre. The show was about fairy tales in modern life as a fun, exciting comedy. The cast and crew were PVCC student volunteers. The student leaders […]
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“Okay, well the goal this semester is to not have to mop up any real blood,” said PVCC student playwright and director Tori Freimuth to members of her cast, as she leaned over a table filling vials with fake blood, “At least the fake blood smells nicer.” It was Thursday, March 31, and members of […]
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Peacock took a ’90s classic and gave it a new look. Bel-Air is full of easter eggs that will instantly connect with people who loved the show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Viewers will see that one little fight that Will’s mother feared drove Will from Philadelphia. With all the same characters, and some new […]
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For those looking for a movie full of heartwarming and heart wrenching scenes, Andaç Haznedaroğlu captures those moments beautifully in My Father’s Violin, originally named Babamin Kemani. A young sassy girl named Özlem, played by Gülizar Nisa Uray, with a heart of gold and a passion for playing the violin becomes orphaned at a young […]
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Charley Hilliard, staff writer Every third Friday of the month, PVCC hosts an improv event. Improvisational theatre is about performing elaborate or simple experiences without any script, literally letting a scene unfold spontaneously. This is unquestionably difficult, but the group that met Friday, Jan., 19 2018, made tongue twisters, body posture contortions, and public heart-to-heart […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer On Saturday, Nov. 11, the University of Virginia drama department performed Seven Guitars by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Seven Guitars was directed by Theresa M. Davis and was performed in the Ruth Caplin Theatre. This particular play is part of a larger sequence of ten plays written by […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer As I made my way to the Maxwell (Black Box) Theatre, I was transported back to the time of Shakespeare. On a clothes rack hung multicolored costumes and fabrics reminiscent of old England. A half-constructed castle was reaching up to the ceiling above the sounds of electric drills, shifting wood and […]
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The audition for Once is Not Enough, PVCC’s spring musical production, was like living and breathing a “trailer” before a major movie premiere. If you have never watched or participated in improv, you will not want to miss the fun, upcoming spontaneous performances of the actors, musicians and dancers in the cast. Using invited audience […]
Continue ReadingPiedmont Virginia Community College Theatre is performing, once again, a unique, but relatable play: “Chance” by Jason Averett, a former UVA student. The play focuses on a group of college friends and their struggles with “mistaken identity, misplaced romance, and missing laundry,” according to the show’s producer, Brad Stoller. “It highlights all of the small […]
Continue ReadingMichel Hazanavicius reinvigorates old silent films with the five-time Academy Award winning film “The Artist,” the story of 1920’s silent film star George Valentin. The flick’s primary action revolves around Valentin’s career dying as the age of talking motion pictures rises. At the heart of the movie is rising movie star Peppy Miller, who harbors […]
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