Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
After over a year of heavily regulated gatherings and the cancellation of almost all public events, things are beginning to look more normal. As vaccination rates climb and the weather gets warmer again, venues like the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton are opening back up just in time for summer. Their first performance since early April […]
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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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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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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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