With the school year now in full swing, Farmville has tried something new and enjoyable for people of all ages: an end of summer celebration. The “Labor Day Fireworks Event” was held on Saturday, Sept. 4 at the Farmville Regional Airport complete with fireworks, food vendors and music. The musical ...
On Sept. 4, comedian Eric O’Shea came to Wygal Hall for one of Lancer Productions’ first events of the year. According to Lancer Productions, the New York City based comedian has appeared on NBC, VH-1 and Sirius XM Radio. O’Shea has quite the resume with over 4 million hits on YouTube, seven nominations ...
The Look: Three-quarter length black shirt (American Eagle), button-down A-line blue jean skirt (American Eagle), Arizona Taupe Suede sandals (Birkenstock), patterned neckerchief (Goodwill), square diamond earrings set in gold (Target), tortoise shell watch (Fossil), white stone ring with black trim ...
The Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) is currently exhibiting artwork entitled Chasing Shadows: The Magical Realities of Elly MacKay. The titular artist from Owen Sound, Canada is a rising star in illustrating for a variety of children’s books including the complete Anne of Green Gables series ...
As Longwood’s Vice Presidential debate draws closer, more details are revealed about the events that will surround it. Longwood has planned a myriad of attractions for students, including entertainment items by the pop group MKTO and the improvisational comedy troupe The Second City. MKTO is composed ...
On the evening of April 19 students, professors and community members packed into the seats of Jarman Auditorium for a night of music from Longwood University’s Wind Symphony along with Jazz Ensemble A. Aside from the Wind Symphony’s performance at graduation, this was the last chance to see the ...
Brandon Paak Anderson, aka Anderson .Paak, is an enigma of sorts. Although the soul singer/rapper is following a traditional path to stardom by being discovered by a music mogul that helped expose him to a mainstream audience, Paak’s route has been more trying than others. At 30 years old, he is relatively ...
This upcoming weekend begins the final Longwood University theatrical production of the year: The Musical of Musicals (the Musical!). This relatively modern show is – you guessed it – a musical which features music by Eric Rockwell and lyrics by Joeanne Bogart. The musical is being directed by Keri ...
“For me, public speaking has always been interesting. I have chronic anxiety, and it is something I like to be open about with people. Sometimes I have no problem with public speaking, and other times it can be a challenge. So I always thought, I don’t know if I can do that (standup comedy),” ...
The Longwood Theatre Department’s most recent performance is “Zero to Sixty,” the department’s tenth annual playwriting festival. This set of performances featured various student-directed plays, some of which were written by the students themselves. One of the final performances in the 2015 ...
Dreamville Records, a label founded by rap superstar J. Cole, has found moderate success thus far. The label houses a talented in-house crew, from rappers, to singers, to producers, to engineers and label executives. However, not many outside fans know of the label's artists other than J. Cole. That ...
Ben Jeffrey is an incredibly tall man with big voice to match his stature. Even when he is sitting down for an interview he can’t stop moving, fiddling with his water bottle and speaking excitedly about his time staring as Pumbaa in The Lion King on Broadway. Watching him up onstage doesn’t a feel ...
“Into the Woods,” a popular hit movie starring Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt in 2014, is coming to the Waterworks Players Community Theatre during the first two weeks of April. Written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine in 1987, “Into the Woods” has stood the test of time making its way on ...
Dudley Sauve sits in Starbucks sans coffee. He explains that he is over caffeinated; he has been working on sets all morning for his upcoming show, “Into the Woods,” so he has been guzzling coffee all morning. He is fitting in this interview between set building and 50 more pages of blocking work ...
Unlike many people, senior Communication Studies student Austin Madison discovered his love for comedy early on when he was just in high school. Madison aspires to become a standup comic and realized that dream his junior year in high school after doing standup at a National Thespians Society induction ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 a local student band that calls themselves The Flying Squids played their debut concert at Bar 202. Members of the band are all Longwood students including, Steven Bowman, John Die, Zeek Zedan, Doug Buchanan and Alex Pate. The band consists of a drummer, two bass players that ...
Triple 9 is no melodrama, as the viewer is on edge during the entire two-hour movie as they witness betrayal after betrayal leading to a less than happy ending. Triple 9 is cop talk for “officer down” and this is what a crew consisting of career criminals and dirty cops need as a distraction to ...
The Witch offers much to the viewer via its well-researched and therefore, realistic portrayal of New England colonists and strong performances from its actors, but ultimately fails in its final act, unfortunately because Act I and II were promising. Set in colonial New England, The Witch is about a ...
Very few Shakespearean plays open with a raucous dance number, but when the Longwood University Theatre Department got their hands on “Twelfth Night” they did just that. The joyful 1920s style dance number set the stage for what would be an unorthodox version of the iconic comedy. The energy and ...
The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recognizes the best in film from this past year and will take place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. With so much controversy surrounding the Oscars again this year, the televised ...
