by Jeff Maisey | Mar 16, 2025 | Dance, Featured, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Arts Festival’s entrancing presentation of MOMIX: Alice hits all the marks for dance and theater fans, for people who delight in beauty of all sorts, for parents who want to entertain offspring – provided mom and dad do not mind being...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
REHEARSAL SCENE: Audrey Seymour (Cree Carrico) and Urchins (Nikki Wilson, Jhayda Washington, ShaaNi Dent) Photo by Samuel Flint By Jerome Langston Arriving at the Wells Theatre on a recent Friday afternoon, I spotted theater artist Melissa Mowry, who directed...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Soprano Keely Flutterer in a past performance of Rinaldo, Armida. Photo by Evan Zimmerman.) By Montague Gammon III The post-Valentines Day Virginia Opera production of Così fan Tutte, Mozart’s comic tale of tested love and strained fidelity, harkens not just to the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Rainier Treviño as Annie and Georgie as Sandy. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for Murphymade.) By Montague Gammon III Virginia Musical Theatre’s February production of the wildly popular musical Annie at the Sandler Center marks a homecoming for the local actress in the...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
Director Jerrell L. Henderson By Jerome Langston “James Ijames is one of the best actors that you will ever see in your life,” surprisingly says Chicago-based play director, Jerrell L. Henderson, who is in town to direct Ijames’s best-known play, Fat Ham, for...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 25, 2024 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Jayna Elise as Tina Turner in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical – Photo By Julieta Cervantes) By Jerome Langston “She’s an absolute legend,” says singer/actress Jayna Elise, about the iconic Rock & Roll Queen, Tina Turner. “She had such tenacity...
