I had a conversation with John Gibson, Artistic Director for Live Arts, the day after he announced Live Arts’ next season’s schedule to a packed house.
The full interview is well worth listening to; you’ll hear the season in the first six minutes.
Stop reading now if you want to be surprised, because below is the list of Live Arts next season:
- Disney’s High School Musical
- Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
- Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage
- Sweeny Todd by (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, based on Christopher Bond’s stage version of the story.)
- 2 Weeks of New Modern Dance
- Visit to a Small Planet by Gore Vidal
- The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
- Tartuffe by Moliere
- Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
Need more — Listen. Need more live arts — www.livearts.org

CPN reporter Deepak Singh meets with Matt Rohdie and Jen Downie, a couple who recently started a mobile doughnut business in Charlottesville called Carpe Donut. Deepak finds out about what motivated them to start such an enterprise and why they picked doughnut over some other street food. Matt Rohdie explains how his version of doughnut is different from others.