by veermagmain | Jan 25, 2024 | Art, Art News
(The exterior is aglow with European charm. Photo by CPix Aperture.) By Betsy DiJulio Gone are the pungent aromas of hay, manure, and gasoline. But in their place, as of January 13, are faint whiffs of damp clay, oil paint, and linseed oil. Nestled into the...
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 23, 2023 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
Mezzo soprano Hilary Ginther By Montague Gammon III One of the most popular and well known of all operas, Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” comes to the Harrison Opera House the first weekend of November in a brand new Virginia Opera production that...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 14, 2023 | News, News & Views
By Jim Roberts Marcia Conston didn’t live in Norfolk in 2011—the year Farm Fresh closed its grocery store in downtown Norfolk—but she fully understands the impact of Tidewater Community College expanding into that long unused space. “I never imagined that we could...