by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Soprano Keely Flutterer in a past performance of Rinaldo, Armida. Photo by Evan Zimmerman.) By Montague Gammon III The post-Valentines Day Virginia Opera production of Così fan Tutte, Mozart’s comic tale of tested love and strained fidelity, harkens not just to the...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Rainier Treviño as Annie and Georgie as Sandy. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for Murphymade.) By Montague Gammon III Virginia Musical Theatre’s February production of the wildly popular musical Annie at the Sandler Center marks a homecoming for the local actress in the...
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...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 25, 2024 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Jayna Elise as Tina Turner in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical – Photo By Julieta Cervantes) By Jerome Langston “She’s an absolute legend,” says singer/actress Jayna Elise, about the iconic Rock & Roll Queen, Tina Turner. “She had such tenacity...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2024 | 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 | 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...
