by Jeff Maisey | Nov 25, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Santa and the starring cast of Hurrah for the Holidays. Photo by Elena Grace Photography courtesy of Hurrah Players.) By Jim Roberts Hugh Copeland has a simple piece of advice for anyone considering producing back-to-back theatrical performances: “Don’t do it.” Yet...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 1, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
Nick Fradiani as ‘Neil – Then’ (center) and ‘The Noise’ in “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical.” Photo credit Jeremy Daniel. By Jim Roberts “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” ran for less than two years on Broadway,...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 1, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Director Anthony Mark Stockard) By Jerome Langston “But ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ is a song I sang a lot, and it used to be my go to audition song,” recalls Anthony Mark Stockard, university professor and NSU Theatre Company’s producing artistic director, during a recent...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 24, 2025 | Featured, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Opera vocalist Flora Hawk) By Montague Gammon III The most important show to take the stage at the Harrison Opera House since the US premiere of composer Thea Musgrave’s Mary Queen of Scots in 1978 and the world premiere of her Christmas Carol in 1979, maybe even...
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...
