Theatre
A Journal for Jordan
Michael B. Jordan stars & Denzel Washington directs
Pipeline
Parents struggle to protect their son
The Niceties
A white professor & her Black student debate race
VaRep closes Willow Lawn theatre
Children’s shows moving
War in Pieces
4 one-act plays written by vets
Vincent River
A grieving mom meets her son’s boyfriend
Every Brilliant Thing
Coping with depression thru a list
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
A clever musical look at relationships
New company in new digs (video)
Illuminated Stage at the Perkinson Center
The Zombie Life
A seminar on the advantages of being undead
The Pink Unicorn
A mother copes with her genderqueer teen
Black Widow
Her origin story
The Bottom Show
Silliness surrounding Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare returns to Agecroft
Ella and Her Fella Frank
Virginia Rep returns with this concert
Broadway in Richmond is back!
5 new shows plus 2 from last season
Walled In (review)
Discovering Thoreau’s Walden in prison
4000 Days
A man wakes after an 11-year coma
Fires in the Mirror
The latest one-person show at Firehouse
Krapp’s Last Tape
Beckett’s play in a landmark production
This Bitter Earth
This relationship is more than Black & white
VaRep announces new co-artistic directors
Katrinah Carol Lewis and Steve Perigard
The Santa Closet (review)
The only live holiday play
More Legends on Grace
1 show next week & 4 next year
Io Capitano
Compelling Oscar nominee about the migrant experience
The Abyss
A collapsing mine spreads disaster
Perfect Days
A Japanese toilet cleaner appreciates life (from Wim Wenders)
The Taste of Things
Gourmet French cooking spiced with l’amour
The Monk and the Gun
A cultural charmer from Bhutan
The Promised Land
An incredible struggle to develop barren land in Denmark
Badland Hunters
More kickass action in post apocalyptic Korea
Anatomy of a Fall
A murder drama that won Cannes’ Palme d’Or
The Origin of Evil
A desperate woman finds her long lost father
Past Lives
Childhood friends reconnect
Blood & Gold
Violent Nazis look for treasure
R.M.N.
Migrant workers stir controversy in Romania
Jung_E
AI robots in a post-apocalyptic world
Broker
Stolen from a “baby box” to be sold
Both Sides of the Blade (Fire)
French import with Juliette Binoche in a love triangle
Happening
Seeking an abortion in 1963 France
Vortex
Dementia in split screens
Two gay Movieland movies
Men in Russia & women in France
Tokyo Vice
Ansel Elgort & Ken Watanabe take on the yakuza
RRR (Rise Roar Revolt)
The biggest Indian action film ever gets 5 stars!
Big Bug
From the French director of AMALIE and THE DELICATESSEN
Toni Erdmann
A German comedy?
Foreign film events from 2 countries (podcast)
German Film Series & Israeli Film Festival featuring a film’s producer
A Hero
Another fine Iranian import from director Asghar Farhadi