Many dinner theatres run primarily on popular musicals. Patrick A’Hearn, producing artistic director of Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia, challenges this... Read more
The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) is once again serving up a menu of new plays by writers with a lot on their minds: climate change, race, police violence, reproductive right... Read more
Holidays celebrate tradition, but paradoxically offer vivid new experiences as well. Riverside Center for the Performing Arts captures this tension wonderfully in its current production of... Read more
There is a parade of trombones, the beat of snare drums, and a procession of young people in jaunty new band uniforms. We speak not of “The Music Man,” but instead another work by the same c... Read more