The Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust and City of Morgantown Arts & Culture Department kicked off the 2022 Ruby Summer Concert Series Friday with royal flair. Queen tribute band Almost […]
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W.Va. Public Theatre launches summer season
After two years without a summer season, West Virginia Public Theatre is making a comeback with the play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” from June 10-12, […]
Jurassic Quest dinosaur experience comes to Mylan Park for three days
MORGANTOWN – Take a walk among 150 million years of dinosaurs without getting chomped this weekend. Jurassic Quest, the traveling dinosaur experience, is at Mylan Park’s Hazel & J.W. Ruby […]
‘The Survivor’ serves as a reminder to fight
As we enter an era when few living Holocaust survivors remain and when there is a concerted effort to ban books like Maus that directly confront the horrors of the […]
River City Festival of the Arts returns
The Annual River City Festival of the Arts will return after COVID shut it down a couple of years ago. Scheduled for Memorial Day weekend — May 27-30 — the […]
Morgantown artists to be featured at the Parkersburg Art Center
West Virginia Watercolor Society is pleased to announce “Aqueous Plus 2022,” exhibiting Friday through June 7 at the Parkersburg Art Center in Parkersburg. Several Morgantown artists are represented in the […]
‘Metal Lords’ taken down by uneven tone
The high school rock band is something that I would swear was an invention of movies if I wasn’t married to someone who played in one. He assures me that […]
WVPT works on Stephen King, John Mellencamp’s new musical with Tony Award-winning director
West Virginia Public Theatre kicks off its summer season with Broadway Licensing with a developmental reading of Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s completely reworked haunting musical, “Ghost Brothers of Darkland […]
‘Rothaniel’ is a piece about secrets
BY ALISE CHAFFINS There’s a saying that comedy is just tragedy plus time. Story-telling comedians like Mike Birbiglia, John Mulaney and Hasan Minhaj have proven this over and over in […]
Big themes get muddled by ghost story in ‘Master’
Subtlety is a lovely tool that, when used effectively, can transform a good film into a great film. In Mariama Diallo’s film “Master,” streaming on Amazon Prime, I felt like […]
