by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Brian Ray Norris and Sam Simahk in Guys & Dolls. Photo by Samuel W. Flint.) By Jerome Langston “He always brings me in for comedies,” says director Nicolas Minas, with a bit of a chuckle, in response to my question about how he was selected to direct Guys and...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 24, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts If the mark of a good chess player is the ability to see and plan many moves ahead, Shon M. Stacy may qualify as a grand master with his staging of “Chess,” the musical. While he’s ruminated on the show since he heard the music as a teen-ager,...
by Jeff Maisey | May 18, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Reaching the final production in the landmark 40th season of Virginia Stage Company feels akin to completing a particularly taxing marathon. And if that’s how I’m feeling about it, as just someone who writes extensively about this...
by Jeff Maisey | May 18, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Brendan Hoyle vividly remembers seeing “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Swift Creek Mill Theatre outside Richmond when he was only 6 years old. “It was the musical that made me fall in love with theater,” he said. “The show is this great...
by Jeff Maisey | May 10, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III In a Summer of Shakespeare reduced and condensed, of Shakespeare symphonic and abridged and played forwards and backwards; in a world awash with the Bard bowdlerized and modernized, concertized, danced and filmed and videoed, set in outer...
by Jeff Maisey | May 10, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Shakespeare’s other pair of doomed lovers – Antony and Cleopatra, the grown up ones – play out their ill fated romance alongside the Virginia Symphony in Norfolk and Newport News mid-May under the baton of VSO’s much honored, triple...
