by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Festivals, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Opera’s “bold and different” – even daring or courageous – pairing of the gallopingly familiar Pagliacci with the much less well known Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht Seven Deadly Sins opens its current four show mainstage Season...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It takes a few minutes to fully acclimatize to Virginia Stage Company’s new temporary home—ODU’s modernly designed Goode Theatre, during a rehearsal break for the company’s ambitious brand new musical, I Sing the Rising Sea, which opens their 38th...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Twenty years ago, Jeffery Seneca starred in a college production of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.” This month, he’ll make his directorial debut at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach with the same show. “I think I’ve seen it now—both from...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Many of us are now waking up to the cold hard truth that...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham On September 3, The New York Times published an article about renewed efforts in China to instill patriotism into the hearts and minds of its school children. “Sparkling red stars and bloody tales of military sacrifice accompanied 200 million...
