by Jeff Maisey | Apr 7, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Morrison The birth of Rosanne Cash’s Grammy-winning album began with an invitation to explore her family’s roots, and, of course, a death. This is country music, after all, real country music. Cash’s journey commenced when she accepted...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 4, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III What can you say about a beautiful young courtesan who dies? Well, oodles of folks have been saying – and singing and even dancing – quite a lot of things about one such star-crossed lass, variously named Marie/Marguerite/Camille/Violetta, since...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 23, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips This time of the year I see familiar faces returning to the cinema who have been missing on Colley Ave for way too long. Confined and isolated in their homes cloistered behind numerous screens and platforms, they have now stepped outside and...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 16, 2015 | Classical
By Montague Gammon III Pianist Olga Kern loves to share what she loves, and what she loves is music. The sheer unbridled joy she takes in making music and sharing it with her “friends and her fans,” comes through in the champagne-worthy effervescence with which...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Sheena Jeffers River North Dance Chicago is coming to Newport News for their first visit to Virginia, and they have a lot to say. A company of six men and six women, known nationally and internationally as an emotive dance company, River North is thrilled to be...