Dreamville Records, a label founded by rap superstar J. Cole, has found moderate success thus far. The label houses a talented in-house crew, from rappers, to singers, to producers, to engineers and label executives. However, not many outside fans know of the label's artists other than J. Cole. That ...
Ben Jeffrey is an incredibly tall man with big voice to match his stature. Even when he is sitting down for an interview he can’t stop moving, fiddling with his water bottle and speaking excitedly about his time staring as Pumbaa in The Lion King on Broadway. Watching him up onstage doesn’t a feel ...
“Into the Woods,” a popular hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt in 2014, is coming to the Waterworks Players Community Theatre during the first two weeks of April. Written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine in 1987, “Into the Woods” has stood the test of time making its way on ...
Dudley Sauve sits in Starbucks sans coffee. He explains that he is over caffeinated; he has been working on sets all morning for his upcoming show, “Into the Woods,” so he has been guzzling coffee all morning. He is fitting in this interview between set building and 50 more pages of blocking work ...
Unlike many people, senior Communication Studies student Austin Madison discovered his love for comedy early on when he was just in high school. Madison aspires to become a standup comic and realized that dream his junior year in high school after doing standup at a National Thespians Society induction ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 a local student band that calls themselves The Flying Squids played their debut concert at Bar 202. Members of the band are all Longwood students including, Steven Bowman, John Die, Zeek Zedan, Doug Buchanan and Alex Pate. The band consists of a drummer, two bass players that ...
Triple 9 is no melodrama, as the viewer is on edge during the entire two-hour movie as they witness betrayal after betrayal leading to a less than happy ending. Triple 9 is cop talk for “officer down” and this is what a crew consisting of career criminals and dirty cops need as a distraction to ...
The Witch offers much to the viewer via its well-researched and therefore, realistic portrayal of New England colonists and strong performances from its actors, but ultimately fails in its final act, unfortunately because Act I and II were promising. Set in colonial New England, The Witch is about a ...
Very few Shakespearean plays open with a raucous dance number, but when the Longwood University Theatre Department got their hands on “Twelfth Night” they did just that. The joyful 1920s style dance number set the stage for what would be an unorthodox version of the iconic comedy. The energy and ...
The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recognizes the best in film from this past year and will take place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. With so much controversy surrounding the Oscars again this year, the televised ...
Love and Lust and Laughs….Oh my! “Twelfth Night” is set to hit Jarman Auditorium for a one week only performance on February 17. The classic tale of mistaken identity and misplaced affections is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies. When Viola is unable to locate her twin brother, Sebastian, ...
On Saturday night, the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) was filled with hundreds of people, as the center hosted its biennial Winter Gala on February 13, 2016 from 7:00 p.m. –11:00 p.m. This year’s theme for the gala was Southern Gothic, and allowed the community to enjoy a fun, creative black-tie ...
Deadpool offers the same superhero story, but with a twist– a new type of Hero! Or Anti-Hero, which gives us enough to stay interested. Deadpool stars Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson a former mercenary diagnosed with terminal cancer who becomes Deadpool after an experiment gives him healing powers. He ...
Love was in the air on Saturday when The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts hosted a Valentine’s Day Art festival featuring arts and crafts workshops for children of all ages. The workshops included making Valentine’s Day cards and animal-themed Valentine’s Day puns, such as “Will you bee my ...
With 111.9 million eyes on them Sunday night, popular British band Coldplay, with the help of Beyoncé, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson, took the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show stage and it was a whole lot of everything. The show kicked off with Coldplay front man Chris Martin crouched down on the football ...
Bruce Speas sat in Longwood’s small black box theatre surrounded by signs of construction. The floor was completely covered with large wooden platforms that, no doubt, were destined to become part of an ornate set. In the distance, the sound of not-so-faint drilling could be heard underneath the sound ...
Last Friday, January 29, at 7:00 p.m. Richmond’s Bifocal Players brought their hilarious and fun show to the Waterworks Players in Farmville, Va. Titled “Luau at Acorn Acres,” the small theatre production written by Richmond playwright Margie Langston centers around Acorn Acres, a senior living ...
“New Girl” – “It’s Jess!” will be stuck in your head all day after watching this show. Refreshing and absolutely fun and quirky, this is one that you can Netflix and chill to all day long. “Jane the Virgin” – A pregnant virgin? Yep! “Jane the Virgin” is a show all about a pregnant ...
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is one of those stories that touches everyone’s life in one way or another. Whether you read it in a high school class, performed in it or just went to the theatre to watch it, there is no arguing that it is an American classic. With its iconic characters and ...
In American society, pieces of art that are foreign are tossed aside or ignored because, as a mainly English speaking society, we tend to gravitate towards works in English. This causes an unfortunate circumstance for foreign musicians because if they don’t conform to English standards, then they ...
