Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
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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Come try out for the fall musical! Saturday Aug 24 1-4 pm Mon/Tues Aug 26, 27 6-9 pm Performances are Nov 21-24 Tech begins Nov 16 CAST: Singers, Fools, Dancers, Actors: Non-actors, Non-singers, non-dancers, More fools. Where: Dickinson Main Stage Rehearsals will be 6-10pm Mon-Thurs- not all called each night (occasional weekend days as per needed.) Information bstoller@pvcc.edu phone/text 434 409-1282
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Madison Weikle, assistant editor The theater is a space for personal expression. Actors, directors, stage hands, and designers work for months for a production which will, inevitably, end. PVCC theater performances have entertained the Charlottesville community for years. Audiences laugh, cry, and share awkward moments with the actors on stage. Each show starts with an […]
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Tyler Gaines, staff writer Many performing arts events have taken place in the month of April. One of these events overlooked was LingXi’s Me2 vs He2. LingXi is a Chinese, student-run organization from UVA founded in 2015 to promote cultural diversity and act as a resource for student talents in theatre art. They have performed […]
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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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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 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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Athena Alving, staff writer On the evening of Nov. 12 in the Blackbox Theatre, tensions rose as the audience eagerly awaited the performance of Much Ado about Nothing to begin. Written by William Shakespeare, the play tells the tale of Prince Don Pedro and his brother Don John, who are returning from war to the […]
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