by Jeff Maisey | Mar 31, 2017 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The magic of true love conquers all the vicious and deceptive spells that a malicious sorcerer can conjure up when the balletic and spectacular enchantments of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Swan Lake officially open the 2017 Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Music News, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Cecile McLorin Salvant Presented by Virginia Arts Festival April 9 Robin Hixon Theater Classically trained, this award-winning jazz vocalist has seized the imagination of the audience with her “resoundingly eloquent” voice — “whether growling...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Beer News, Drink
By Jeff Maisey Craft beer festivals and events are all the rage these days, but with everyone and his brother producing such festivities offering an experience that is unique and enticing is harder to pull off. Greg White knows a thing or two about this. White is the...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | News, News & Views
By Jim Morrison Twenty years ago, Keith Moone was a seventh grader in the band at Craddock Middle School in Portsmouth when Scott Jackson showed up to say the new Virginia Arts Festival was offering a chance to learn steel pan and African drum and dance. Soon, Moone...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Musical Theater, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff Turandot Virginia Opera March 17, 19, 21 Based on an ancient fable set in China, this story of the legendary Princess Turandot, so desirable that men risked their heads for her hand in marriage, weaves the quest for love with the ultimate...
