This weekend, Shenandoah Conservatory, part of Shenandoah University in conservative Winchester, Va., mounts a production of the first part of Tony Kushner's award-winning 1993 masterpiece, Angels in America, Part 1. Subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," it focuses specifically on the impact and stigma of AIDS in the 1980s. Matt Kittlaus, who directs the play's eight actors (and seven ... [Read]

Guest theater choreographer Joshua Bergasse (national tour of Fame, regional productions of Carousel, West Side Story) contributes a new work for the kick-off to the Shenandoah Conservatory's dance season. The concert showcases new and encore works of jazz, ballet and modern dance, much of it choreographed by Shenandoah faculty. Saturday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 31, at ... [Read]

Shenandoah Conservatory Performances opens its season with the Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line, exploring the life of 17 dancers on their journey through an audition and past reflections of a life in dance. The musical won nine Tony Awards and was the recipient of 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and The Drama ... [Read]