This year, Virginia Stage Company’s annual production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is a revamped musical adaption with a refreshed script and set, along with a new lead starring as Ebenezer Scrooge. Rebecca gives us her take on this new version of a holiday classic.

The Virginia Chorale performed their annual holiday concert to packed crowds. Arts reporter Rebecca Evans offers a review.

The Virginia Symphony Orchestra paid homage to women composers with a performance titled "Breaking Barriers: Women in Music," which included seldom-heard works and discussion with the audience.

Rebecca reviews "The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ‘61 Freedom Riders," written and directed by Mike Wiley and co-produced by the Virginia Stage Company and Norfolk State University Theatre Company.

Virginia Opera launched its 43rd season with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, and the production made a number of bold choices. Was the staging insightful or merely crafted for shock value? Rebecca gives us her take. For upcoming Virginia Opera performances, visit vaopera.org.

Rebecca reviews the opening concert of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s 97th Season, and shares her thoughts on the orchestra’s efforts to bridge the pop and classical worlds and draw in new audiences. The program featured Grammy-winning electric bassist Victor Wooten as a concerto soloist in The Bass Whisperer, and the iconic suite The Planets by Gustav Holst. To find out about upcoming Virginia Symphony performances, visit www.virginiasymphony.org