by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Director Thomas W. Jones II) By Jerome Langston There’s been just a few days for the Atlanta-based director and playwright, Thomas W. Jones II, to get his bearings here in Norfolk, as rehearsals for the play that he’s here to direct, Detroit ’67, begin in earnest....
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 25, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
BY MONTAGUE GAMMON III Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has that claim to preeminence reinforced locally this week. . Shakespeare in the Grove’s big cast, Big Top, all stops out, Push-motored free admission production of Dream takes the...
by Jeff Maisey | May 18, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey Comedian/actress/recording artist Vicki Lawrence, best known for her role as Mama on CBS’s “The Carol Burnette Show” (1967-78), will bring her “two-woman” act to Ferguson Center on June 9. (NOTE:The Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show...
by Jeff Maisey | May 6, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns to the Arts Festival to put yet another unique, hilarious, high pressure squeeze on the greatest playwright of the Western World. Reducing to 97 minutes a body of work that totals 867,711 words...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(The Cast L-R: John Ahlin as Frank, Beth Glover as Virginia, Alexandra Lemus as Tania, and Michael Earle Farjardo as Pablo) By Jerome Langston Very little is left of an intense workday of rehearsal that preceded my current interview time with director Tinashe...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Khanisha Foster returns to Virginia Stage Company to direct another challenging play By Jim Roberts When Tom Quaintance, Virginia Stage Company’s artistic director, asked Khanisha Foster to direct “Disgraced” last year, she originally said no. When he asked again, she...
