On a rainy Wednesday on Broad Street, there’s a “shadow play” rehearsal being conducted on a makeshift stage with taut bed sheets on wires substituting for scrims.
“The action goes like this,” says the director, New York’s Lear deBessonet, in a soft voice that manages to echo through the room. “A woman beating a child. A [...]

photo credit: Dan Addison
This spring, one University of Virginia class set a goal that many people would envy: to become financially literate enough to be able to critically read and analyze articles in The Economist.
In the process of bringing 35 students closer to that goal, the class’s teachers, fourth-year economics majors Grace Ng and Vadim [...]

By D. Rachael Bishop
More than a dozen engineering students cut the rug, in both practical and aesthetic senses, this fall as U.Va. First Year Players performed an emotionally invigorating rendition of the musical “Footloose.”
Engineers served in such varied roles as prop charge, master carpenter, publicity chair and director. Others played in the orchestra and three [...]