by Jeff Maisey | Mar 26, 2022 | Dance, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Don Quixote dreams of his Dulcinea. Photo by David Polston) By Jeff Maisey The legendary Don Quixote triumphantly rode into Chrysler Hall on Friday, March 25, conquering the hearts and minds of all who attended the phenomenal opening night to the Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 22, 2022 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Alisa Jordheim is playing Susanna) By Montague Gammon III If Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, the Virginia Opera production coming up on the last weekend of March, were a Golden Age Hollywood romantic comedy, or a door slamming stage farce, it could well be...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 15, 2021 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey Anthony Wayne, the former Norfolk resident who scored success on Broadway performing in “Tootsie: The Musical,” “Pippin,” “Once On This Island,” and “Anything Goes,” as well as Broadway nationwide touring productions of “The Color Purple” and “A...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 15, 2021 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
Lila Coogan (Anya) and the company of the National Tour of ANASTASIA. Photo by Evan Zimmerman, MurphyMade. By Jerome Langston “It’s a blessing,” says actor Bryan Seastrom, who is about to perform tonight, with the rest of the cast, at the Embassy Theatre in Fort...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 31, 2021 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Raquel González stars as Mimì.) By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Opera’s La Bohème: Rodolpho Remembers, a concentrated, intensified staging of what a poet can say about a girl who died, was born to the San Diego Opera a year ago, conceived by the necessities of...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2021 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “You literally feel like…when you walk into that theatre, that you are right there in 1959 with Billie Holiday and her band,” says Georgia native Ashley Bishop-Diggs, who portrays the iconic jazz singer in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar &...
