by veermagmain | Jan 25, 2024 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Michelle Liu Coughlin (pictured) and Daniel Domingues are making their Virginia Stage Company performance debuts in Dial M For Murder.) By Jerome Langston “Well I make no apology for saying that I love this play. It’s a wonderful play. It’s a brilliant piece of...
by veermagmain | Jan 6, 2024 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston The subject of comedian Preacher Lawson’s lengthy locs, comes up quite early in our recent phone chat. His hair is even alluded to in his most recent comedy tour name, Loc’d And Loaded, though I guess the tour name didn’t stick…as he quickly...
by veermagmain | Nov 24, 2023 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Beatty Barnes Jr. portraying Ebenezer Scrooge in Virginia Stage Company’s “A Merry Christmas Carol.” Photo by Sam Flint. By Jerome Langston “We’ve been able to build this – for the last 3 years,” says Tom Quaintance, Virginia Stage Company’s producing...
by veermagmain | Oct 31, 2023 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Michelle Azar stars as Ruth Bader Ginsburg Photo courtesy of Bay Street Theater.) By Montague Gammon III The most important play that anyone in Hampton Roads will see this year, and probably for many years to come, crops up for just one single early November night...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 29, 2023 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Michelle Azar stars as Ruth Bader Ginsburg Photo courtesy of Bay Street Theater.) By Jim Roberts The playwright Rupert Holmes and actress Michelle Azar are sharing universal acclaim for “All Things Equal—The Life & Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” a one-woman show...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 11, 2023 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Christopher Marquis Lindsay as Henry V. Photo by Matthew Omilianowski of TOC Creative.) By Montague Gammon III The greatest coach-to-underdogs pre-game speech the world has ever heard, or can ever expect to hear, is part of what makes Shakespeare’s c. 1599 history...
