by Jeff Maisey | Jun 7, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(K’Bana Blaq performs in drag. Photo by Charles Long.) By Jeff Maisey For some 20 years, many in Hampton Roads have experience K’Bana Blaq as one of the charismatic, upfront singers in The Fuzz Band. His fashion sense, dance moves, and vocal talent keep crowds...
by Jeff Maisey | May 19, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Kathryn Hunter-Williams) By Jerome Langston “Coming out of this pandemic, where it has been such an anxious, grinding two seasons, seemed like—that’s the piece I want to visit, as we are coming back together,” says Tom Quaintance, the Producing Artistic Director of...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Aamira Challenger, Katie Housley, Palymyra Mattner, Joshua Liburd, and Conner Keef. Photo by Darryl Estrine. Aquila Theatre’s The Great Gatsby.) By Montague Gammon III The Aquila Theatre’s casting of The Great Gatsby, coming to the Norfolk’s Attucks Theatre...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Jessi DiPette plays Patsy in “The Ribbon Mill.” Credit: Josh Stubbs Photography) By Jim Roberts Unless you were a die-hard theater fan living in Memphis in 2002, you probably haven’t heard of a play called “The Ribbon Mill.” But if you’re adventurous enough to take...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Maya Days, who played roles in Law & Order (1990), Damages (2007), and Melange (2020), is now cast in “Fountain of You” at Zeiders. By Jim Roberts Faye Chiao and Tasha Gordon-Solmon are working artists in New York’s theater industry, but their new musical...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 14, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III It’s a murder mystery every bit as baffling as any Agatha Christie whodunit; it’s a look at the African-Americans who were an under-recognized part of our Greatest Generation. It’s about stereotypes and how people of any race can succumb...
