Arts & Culture

Virginia Stage Company's season opens on Sept. 3 and includes seven performances. The shows include well-known musicals, taut dramas and perennial favorites.

The muni-muni club formed to help the Norfolk Tides produce an annual Filipino-American Heritage Night. Now it holds events year-round to support Filipino-owned businesses and promote the contributions of Filipino Americans to the area.

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy tour will stop in Virginia Beach and Newport News, old haunts of the 19th-century author. The events include cocktails inspired by Poe's work.

John T. Biggers was a student artist at Hampton in the 1940s and later became a nationally known educator and artist. The retrospective features pieces that have never been showcased before.

“They’ll always have that ability to tell their story honestly and openly and to be able to give light to where they see the need.”

A new exhibition, 'Constructing Mexico: Photography and National Identity,' examines how photographers during a century captured the country and influenced its character.

The Hampton Roads icon fought segregation in the 1960s and spent more than 30 years leading diversity and inclusion efforts at Old Dominion University.

The Icelandic-Chinese songwriter has a devoted following among those who appreciate her unique blend of jazz and classical music. She is performing Wednesday and Thursday at the Chartway Arena.

The project will add a three-story wing, which will include more gallery space, meeting rooms and storage.

Two Norfolk art galleries closed recently, and art centers are cutting programs, seeing fewer sales as people tighten their budgets, among layoffs and cuts in arts funding.