by Jeff Maisey | Apr 24, 2025 | Classical, Music, Music News
(A 1903 photograph of French composer Gabriel Fauré.) By Montague Gammon III A double-dozen dose of seldom heard music comes to the Larchmont United Methodist Church April 26 to honor French composer Gabriel Fauré with the closing concert of the Norfolk Chamber...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 24, 2025 | Featured, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Opera vocalist Flora Hawk) By Montague Gammon III The most important show to take the stage at the Harrison Opera House since the US premiere of composer Thea Musgrave’s Mary Queen of Scots in 1978 and the world premiere of her Christmas Carol in 1979, maybe even...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2025 | News, News & Views
(Rick Mersel shares some insights into his new book at Chicho’s Backstage Cafe.) By Jeff Maisey As you might imagine, Rick Mersel has lived an exciting life thus far. Born in Norfolk, Mersel has now spent most of his life in the music business, opening the popular...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Actress Anna Sosa) By Jerome Langston “Every Brilliant Thing is a play that I have seen more often than any other play that I’ve directed,” says Tom Quaintance, the Producing Artistic Director of Virginia Stage Company, during a recent phone chat earlier this week....
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2025 | Food, Food Reviews, Restaurant News
(Yogev Kremisi brings much needed dining menu to Ghent.) By Marisa Marsey “Are you Charlie?” Yogev Kremisi gets that question a lot. The trim, swarthy 38-year-old chuckles as he clarifies he’s not. But he is the new proprietor and chef of Charlie’s, the venerable...
