I’ve just started seeing notifications about SPARC’s Live Art concert that's scheduled for June 3rd this year. In case you don’t know about it: Live Art is an amazing celebration of the talent of young people regardless of developmental difficulties they might have. Started in 2011, the show always draws some incredible top-line talent and never fails to include some seriously heart-tugging moments. The subtitle this year is “Love” and I’m sure it’s going to be a wonderful ev

I’ve had the chance to see a few of the Acts of Faith productions and I think it’s curious how many of the shows are about bravery. In our last podcast, I spoke to Brandon Carter from THE CHRISTIANS, a show about a preacher who takes a brave stand in expressing his true beliefs. Margarette Joyner was also a guest and in FREE MAN OF COLOR, a university president encourages a black man to enroll at Ohio University, a courageous action at the time. And in CORPUS CHRISTI both Jud

I was talking to someone a few years back who mentioned in passing that she was a runner. The main subject we had been talking about was business intelligence software so I didn’t really think twice about the running remark. I guess I assumed she was the occasional Monument Ave 10K-type runner that I am. We became friends on Facebook and I saw some weeks later that she was planning to do something called the Dopey Challenge. Having no context, I assumed it was something, I do

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and I think I’m legally obligated to make some kind of football-oriented analogy. Perhaps I could posit that the HamilTunes event we held yesterday at the Virginia Historical Society is to “normal theater programming” as the Super Bowl is to “a regular football game:” both a whole lot more and a lot less at the same time. But I’m a scofflaw and will not stoop to that. Instead, I’d like to talk a little about a kerfuffle in the fairly insular world of th