THE ROPER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

by Kirk Cramer - April 29, 2024

A poignant and reflective journey through the celebrated artist's career and personal contemplations on life and mortality. Despite showing signs of vocal aging, Patinkin's mastery in blending song with deeply personal storytelling captivates the audience, making each song a narrative of its own. Th...

by Susan Haubenstock - December 06, 2021

Young Jean Lee's 2014 play made it to Broadway in 2018 and now afflicts the comfortable at Conciliation Lab....

by Susan Haubenstock - December 06, 2021

A sweet and sentimental Christmas play geared to fans of the classic movie...

by Susan Haubenstock - November 24, 2021

This crowd-pleaser is lightweight, fizzy fun—maybe not so much Champagne as sweet sparkling cider, but effervescent nonetheless....

by Susan Haubenstock - November 30, 2021

Michael and Lily are an odd couple--they irritate each other, but this play's familiar plot signals that they'll be great friends....

by Susan Haubenstock - November 22, 2021

For a change of pace, Richmond Triangle Players’ holiday offering is an original musical, “A Christmas Kaddish.” Using flashback elements from seasonal favorites like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol,” the show takes an unusually serious look at life, death and love....

by Susan Haubenstock - October 26, 2021

Dominique Morisseau's 2019 play--one of the most-produced plays of that year--hurls the audience into the emotions that surface when schoolteacher Nya's son Omari is threatened with being diverted from his private boarding school into the notorious school-to-prison pipeline....

by Susan Haubenstock - October 03, 2021

'The Niceties' is Eleanor Burgess's 2018 drama in which a white professor and a Black undergraduate argue over provocative issues of race and history--an excellent choice for The Conciliation Lab's season opener....

by Susan Haubenstock - September 30, 2021

Firehouse Theatre presents a program of four world-premiere one-act plays written by military veterans, taken from their lives in service in different eras....

by Susan Haubenstock - September 28, 2021

Philip Ridley's emotional two-character play confronts homophobia and searing loss....