by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III At the eerie border between this world and the next, wrapped within the blurry boundary that separates what’s natural from what’s not, traveling near the snow bound Scottish-English border in the uncommonly frigid winter of 2010, academic...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 2, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “I got wild in New York!” That’s almost the opening line of director Laley Lippard’s part of our recent conversation about Grounded, the last full run play of Virginia Stage Company’s current season. Lippard is not yet here, of course ─ she flies...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston I’ve always been deeply passionate about theater,” explains playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton during a recent phone call about her fascinating new play, The Hampton Years, which is being produced and presented by the Virginia Stage...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 12, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The greatest English writer’s bloody tragedy of ancient Scottish royalty, in company with the greatest American humorist’s fanciful tale of an ancient English court, comes to Christopher Newport’s Ferguson Center a few days after the Ides of...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 7, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A British performance artist successfully turned beauty queen, and a “stubborn” basset hound somewhat less successfully turned show dog, bring their irreverent and humorous two performer multi-media look at competitive beauty and...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 29, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Once upon a time – and a very bad time it was too, to be male, alone and Black, and subject to Southern Police scrutiny – novelist John Ball picked up a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel with In the Heat of the Night,...
