Kelsey Cordrey News

BWW Review: STRAIGHT WHITE MEN at Conciliation Lab

by Susan Haubenstock — December 6, 2021

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

BWW Review: PIPELINE at Virginia Rep

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.

BWW Review: THE NICETIES at The Conciliation Lab

by Susan Haubenstock — October 3, 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.

BWW Review: RICHMOND'S 2020 ARTSIES AWARDED at Richmond Theatre Critics Circle

by Susan Haubenstock — September 22, 2020

Richmond's TheatreLAB won ten awards and eight went to Virginia Rep in the 13th annual Artsies, presented virtually for the first time.

BWW Feature: MASH NOTE TO 'AMERICAN IDIOT' AND 'THE TOXIC AVENGER' at Firehouse Theatre Project And 5th Wall Theatre

by Susan Haubenstock — June 4, 2020

Peak summer wackiness resulted when Firehouse did 'American Idiot' and 5th Wall did 'The Toxic Avenger.

BWW Review: THE REVOLUTIONISTS at TheatreLAB Is a Stunning Womanifesto

by Susan Haubenstock — March 4, 2020

In 'The Revolutionists,' a quartet of French Revolution-era women brilliantly claim their power in this comedy/drama at TheatreLAB.

BWW Review: URINETOWN at TheatreLAB Is a Stunning and Hilarious Anti-Holiday Musical

by Susan Haubenstock — November 29, 2019

For an antidote to holiday treacle overload, look no further than TheatreLAB's superb production of the 2001 agitprop musical comedy 'Urinetown.

BWW Review: FALSETTOS at Richmond Triangle Players Is Transcendent with Love and Pain

by Susan Haubenstock — September 9, 2019

Triangle Players triumphs with a wonderful cast that is more than equal to this heartbreakingly funny musical.

RTP Opens 2019-20 Season With FALSETTOS

by Stephi Wild — August 12, 2019

Richmond Triangle Players launches its 2019-20 season with the Tony-Award winning musical Falsettos, opening Friday September 6, 2019, at 8 pm, following two low-priced previews on Wednesday and Thursday, September 4 and 5 at 8 pm.

5th Wall Theatre and TheatreLAB Team Up For The Women's Theatre Festival 2019

by Stephi Wild — February 23, 2019

5th Wall Theatre and TheatreLAB are teaming up again to co-produce the Women's Theatre Festival beginning March 27, 2019.

BWW Review: Spread the Love Around--Virginia Repertory Theatre's Infectious and Pristine Production of SISTER ACT is a Holiday Treat Dressed in a Habit!

by Jeremy Bustin — December 1, 2018

Virginia Repertory Theatre Presents SISTER ACT

by A.A. Cristi — October 3, 2018

Virginia Repertory Theatre announces the opening of Sister Act on Friday, November 16, 2018 at the November Theatre/Arenstein Stage, 114 West Broad Street.

5th Wall and TheatreLAB Present Quick-Witted Dark Comedy HAND TO GOD

by Stephi Wild — June 8, 2018

5th Wall Theatre's artistic director Carol Piersol and TheatreLAB's artistic director Deejay Gray announce their upcoming co-production HAND TO GOD, an ingenious contemporary comedy that shocked and delighted audiences for years on the Off-Broadway and Broadway circuits before nabbing five Tony nomi