by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III One of the greatest operas of all time, by one of the greatest composers of all time, with a libretto by a similarly regarded writer, opens Virginia Opera’s 50h Anniversary Season with two Harrison Opera House performances October...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 5, 2024 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(DRINK, DRINK: A stage scene from “Arsenic and Old Lace.” Photo by Erica Johnson @majerlycreative) By Jerome Langston “Most of my summer is spent doing these plays in Virginia, which is lovely,” said New York City based theater director, Nicolas Minas, when I reached...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 28, 2024 | Film, Stage & Film
(Renata Sheppard) By Montague Gammon III Big art coming out of the small town of Cape Charles has made this erstwhile ferry boat stop on Virginia’s Eastern Shore known from Los Angeles to New York, at film festivals across the USA and as far flung as Ireland and Hong...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 15, 2024 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(The Urchins: Shaniya Reddy, Jalen Whitmore, Bella McKenzie, Tahtiana Crawford, Stephanie Tillman-Liggins, and Micah Lister) By Montague Gammon III It’s musical theater based on the extra low budget, black and white movie that helped set 23-year-old Jack Nicholson on...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2024 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(“The Brothers Size” runs June 19-22 at NSU Brown Hall MainStage Theater.) By Montague Gammon III Three new theater companies hit local stages for the first time as part of the Virginia Arts Festival’s 2024 Theater Festival; one is our newest fully...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 27, 2024 | Dance, Stage & Film
(Dance Theatre of Harlem Company in Sounds of Hazel. Photo by Jeff Cravotta) By Jerome Langston “He taught me that it’s bigger than the art. It’s about people,” says Robert Garland, the new artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH), referring to the legendary...
