Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Madison Weikle, staff writer The stage lights open on a spunky, blonde dancer. She smiles at the audience then with a snap of her fingers, the band starts to play. West Side Story is a musical take on the classic story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The performance, like the play itself, went through a […]
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Madison Weikle, staff writer “The world sucks… being a teenager sucks,” states Lia Wallace, college prep programs manager and camp director of the American Shakespeare Theater Company in Staunton, Virginia. Wallace was born and raised by a Shakespeare-centered family in Philadelphia. Although she reveled in the nerdy stigma of being a “Shakespeare kid,” she […]
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Bryn Dotson, staff writer The Live Arts lobby in downtown Charlottesville was buzzing with white noise and chatter, people talking animatedly with finger food in hand. A sudden ping from a glass grabbed the crowd’s attention, drawing their eyes to a couple of women standing in the middle of the cozy seating area. The […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingDeadra Miller, staff writer Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Brad Stoller is producing Arthur Laurents’ classic musical theatre production West Side Story at PVCC’s Dickinson Theater. There will be four performances of the musical in April 2018. “Following on the heels of PVCC Theater’s fall production of Romeo and Juliet, its original inspiration, this seminal musical […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer The Maxwell Theatre (Black Box Theatre) at PVCC carries the tradition of the intimate environment that has portrayed “Romeo and Juliet” as well as Shakespeare’s other plays so honestly for centuries. The audience sat tight on Friday, Oct. 27, packed into three rows of inclined seating. With relatively little room for […]
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MaKayla Grapperhaus, staff writer On Thursday night, Feb. 2, students at Woodberry Forest School performed Doctor Faustus, a classic drama by Christopher Marlowe. The play was performed in the school’s Bomb Shelter Experimental Theater, a small, dark space; a fitting atmosphere for the setting of the play. The private, all-boy boarding school in Madison […]
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Believed to have been written and first performed over 400 years ago, The Tempest is playing at PVCC on March 31, April 1 and 2. The cast of 18 includes students from PVCC and members of the local community who will be performing an inspired take on Shakespeare’s classic. Adjunct Coordinator of Theatre Productions and […]
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Students of PVCC and members of the Piedmont community got a chance to go back to a time when things were simpler, stranger, and a lot more sensual with the Arts Department’s performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that captivated the Main Stage from December 3-5th. Directed by Brad Stoller as he created his […]
Continue ReadingCharlottesville, Va. – Piedmont Virginia Community College’s student Theatre Club (Masquers) hosts Fourth Fridays Improv Jan. 23, from 6-8 p.m. in the Main Stage Theatre in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. This free workshop series explores the art of theatrical improvisation in its many forms. No experience is required. Using a series of fun […]
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