A musical that makes fun of musicals is few and far between. Most shows take themselves very seriously with flash dance numbers and sweeping ballads. With “The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)” you get the best of both worlds, a show with flash that is fully aware of how silly it is. The set for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Rodney Williams is a self-proclaimed egomaniac. If you walk into his office it wouldn’t be hard to quickly jump to that conclusion. With awards covering almost every open space and photos of performances covering all the walls in his small office, it’s easy to see that Williams is more than proud ...
It is around this time every semester when you start spotting people sleeping, crying and just generally losing their minds in the library. It’s a stressful time of year, the second half of the semester is no cake-walk and Brock Commons is filled less with the sounds of laughter and more with the ...
In celebration of youth art month, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts hosted the artwork of area students. From pre-k to high school seniors, over 1,500 students got a chance to see their artwork displayed proudly, and patrons got the opportunity to see the work of some very talented young artists. As ...
“A Midsummer Night's Dream” has been done before, in fact, it may be even more performed then “Romeo & Juliet” due to its lack of dead teenagers. Luckily, under the direction of Bruce Speas, the Longwood University theatre department was able to breathe new life into an old story. With a ...
