by Jeff Maisey | Nov 25, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Actor Beatty Barnes Jr. will reprise the role of Ebenezer Scrooge) By Jerome Langston “I’m a therapist by day, and a theater director by night,” says Maryanne Kiley, very early in our recent phone chat, about her job as director of Virginia Stage Company’s A...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 21, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Tony and Karla Robinson as George and Judy Kimball in Arts Enter Cape Charles’ production of Send Me No Flowers. Photo credit: Chris Roll By Sheila Vera “Especially during a time when we’re so divided, we strive to find plays that draw the community...
by Jeff Maisey | May 20, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Dress rehearsal of Little Theatre of Virginia Beach’s production of “Ripchord.” Image by J. Stubbs Photography.) By Jim Roberts When “Ripcord” opened off-Broadway in 2015, The New York Times compared it to classic TV sitcoms like “The Odd Couple,”...
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 | 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 | 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...
