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VEER: Insights Into Santaland Diaries

VEER: Insights Into Santaland Diaries

For the second consecutive year, Virginia Stage Company will present David Sedaris’ comedically brilliant essay turned one-act play The Santaland Diaries to give grownups — naughty or nice — additional cheer as a complement, or sorts, to Dickens family-friendly A Christmas Carol…

WHRO Reviews OUR TOWN: "a Moving Tribute to the Tidewater Community"

WHRO Reviews OUR TOWN: "a Moving Tribute to the Tidewater Community"

Last weekend, Virginia Stage Company opened its new, immersive production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at the Wells Theatre. Our Town follows ordinary lives in a fictional town called Grover’s Corners in the early 20th century. The play within a play is a celebration of joys, pains, promises, and the human experience; it’s beloved as a standard of theater in American high schools, begging the question, “What will Virginia Stage do differently?”

VEER PREVIEW: VA Stage Co Opens With Always Patsy Cline

VEER PREVIEW: VA Stage Co Opens With Always Patsy Cline

“She has so many hits,” says actress Sandia Ahlers with a laugh, referring to Patsy Cline, the music legend that she’s portraying in the musical play that opens the landmark 40th season of the Virginia Stage Company, Always…Patsy Cline. The actress is new to VSC, but is certainly not new to portraying Patsy, as she…