by Jeff Maisey | Mar 16, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, from 1924, is a fable about sex and death, and about fearing (and not fearing) sex and about not fearing (and fearing) death. This love story, as it is often called, is “not about finding the right person for...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 16, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It’s pretty fascinating to witness the return of Rent into our current politically polarized and media obsessed Zeitgeist. The rock musical, a loose adaption of Puccini’s La Bohème, was one of the defining theatrical phenomenons of the nineties,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 2, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A wildly madcap, vividly colorful, gleefully and respectfully updated and “especially Spanish” production of Rossini’s ever popular Barber of Seville comes to the Harrison Opera House as Virginia Opera’s second production of the current Season,...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 20, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts “I’ve done some vulgar stuff,” Shon M. Stacy mused after directing a rehearsal of “Silence! The Musical.” “This will top it.” The off-Broadway show is billed as the “unauthorized” parody of “The Silence of the Lambs,” the 1991 film that won five...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Musical Theater, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff I Sing the Rising Sea Virginia Stage Company Through October 9 ODU’s Goode Theatre This musical by the coauthor of Frog Kisstells a sweeping story that flows through generations and across continents—from the shores of Virginia to Japan and...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Festivals, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Opera’s “bold and different” – even daring or courageous – pairing of the gallopingly familiar Pagliacci with the much less well known Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht Seven Deadly Sins opens its current four show mainstage Season...
