All-female cast play “The Wolves” opens TheatreVCU season
Taylor Patzman Contributing Writer TheatreVCU’s first mainstage show of the season, “The Wolves,” which features an all-female cast of nine teen soccer players and a soccer mom, opens today at Raymond Hodges Theater. The performance is the Richmond debut of the 2016 play written by Sarah DeLappe and produced in partnership with Cadence Theatre Company. “It’s […]
Toilet humor meets political satire in “Urinetown”
How do you combine political theory, large scale revolution, musical theater and urine? TheatreVCU is trying to accomplish this with “Urinetown,” in production at the W.E. Singleton Center until May 1. TheatreVCU assistant professor James Stover is directing the production with a cast comprised of VCU undergraduate and graduate students. Stover was brought on as […]
Theatre VCU brings HIV/AIDS awareness to the stage
Theatre VCU in collaboration with the Humanities Research Center is hosting a series of stage readings on the topic of HIV/AIDs. Second year graduate student Ian Watson is staging “Before It Hits Home” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Virginia Repertory Theatre. The performances are free and open to the public. “Before it […]
Actors on the spot in new student show
Adriel Velazquez Contributing Writer Most plays have a script for the actors to follow and most improv shows are filled with games in which the actors have total control over what happens, with no script to guide them. This Friday, VCU graduate student Townsend Hart and the Coalition Theatre will mix these two forms of […]
TheatreVCU feels the vibration “In the Next Room”
TheatreVCU’s latest mainstage production gives students the rare opportunity to watch their peers orgasm on stage. “In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)” details the story of a Victorian-era doctor who utilizes the advent of electricity to treat female hysteria. The play opened last Thursday and explores topics of feminine sexuality, and its notable […]
“Rocky Horror” rides into Richmond for Halloween
TheatreVCU sold out their opening night of “The Rocky Horror Show” at the W.E. Singleton Center the night before Halloween. The show opened Friday, Oct. 30, and a miidnight showing was be held on Halloween. Then, on Friday the 13th, they will be having a costume party prior to the show with contests and cast […]
TheatreVCU kick-starts new season with the Pumpkin Pie Commencement
TheatreVCU has an exciting lineup of shows for their upcoming season featuring “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” and other risque performances.
TheatreVCU explores Frankenstein and the woman who wrote it
In the middle of a laboratory, a white sheet covers a body stitched together from multiple corpses. An estranged scientist stares over them, hoping to gain the power of immortality through these lifeless limbs.
Doctor, former dean to star in TheatreVCU production
TheatreVCU this week will welcome patrons to its first production of the school year: A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters.”
Theater preview | Sideshow attraction subject of theatreVCU’s Mainstage
Through their production of “The Elephant Man,” opening this Friday, Feb. 10, theatreVCU seeks to take audience members back to 1880s Victorian London, during a time of freak shows and decadence, in order to ask what it really means to be normal – and what is the cost?