“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” might not be the best-known musical playing this weekend in the Kanawha Valley.
“Betsy Blossom Brown” is a beautifully written coming of age story by West Virginia author Kathleen M. Jacobs. In the book we follow the life of the title character as she learns to live with and come to terms with all the things good and bad that life throws her way.
LOS ANGELES — Mark Ruffalo learned about corporate attorney Rob Bilott, who for 20 years battled DuPont to expose the harmful effects of the chemical PFOA, along with most of the country: In 2016 through an article in The New York Times Magazine.
“The Making of a Field Hippie” is a new memoir from Joe Mirenna. If his name rings a bell, he plays banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle and hammered dulcimer and was a member of the Booger Hole Revival string band in the mid-1970s. The self-taught multi-instrumentalist was also an artist-in-resi…
The movie “Dark Waters,” about the effect of deadly chemicals in West Virginia, is “very damaging” for DuPont de Nemours Inc., Wall Street analysts at Fermium Research wrote in a report before the film’s theatrical debut this week.
Saturday afternoon, there’s a kind of homecoming at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center’s Little Theater with the Charleston Light Opera Guild’s 70th anniversary gala.
The T-Rex Science Center opens Friday, but not when creator Scott Breeden wanted or even where he intended.
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra returns to the Clay Center Saturday with “Violin or Fiddle,” a concert featuring violinist Tessa Lark, recipient of a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. The presentation will include selections by Brahms and Beeth…
The Charleston Light Opera Guild returns for weekend number two of it’s 70th anniversary production of “Oklahoma!” at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center Little Theater. The show features a cast of 50 and includes notable songs like “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “People Will Say …
Big Sandy Superstore gets a face full of rock Sunday with A Day To Remember’s “The Degenerates Tour.” The band is best known for alt rock hits like “All I Want,” “It’s Complicated” and “Paranoia.” The pop punk/metalcore show also includes “I Prevail,” “Beartooth” and “Can’t Swim.” Tickets fo…
A song doesn’t have to be a big radio hit to leave an impression.
Some theater shows are complex, meant to provoke deeper thought, compassionate action and social change.
If you're watching a big studio film featuring a female ensemble, there is a 50% chance that there is going to be some monologue about how men underestimating women is both a truism and an advantage. It's becoming as inevitable as environmentalist supervillains. On its face it's a harmless o…
CLARKSBURG — West Virginia filmmaker Robert Tinnell’s first foray into romantic comedy, “Feast of the Seven Fishes,” is a deeply personal story that also includes a little how-to on the types of seafood his family cooked on Christmas Eve.
The Charleston Light Opera Guild premiered its latest staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center Little Theater on Friday evening to a solid crowd that was obviously excited to be part of the show.
The West Virginia Humanities council will present “The Battle of Shakespeare’s Sexes,” a free symposium with actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival performing brief Shakespeare excerpts, followed by a moderated discussion.
Yes, Sarah Vowell has been this way before.
