by Jeff Maisey | Sep 19, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “She has so many hits,” says actress Sandia Ahlers with a laugh, referring to Patsy Cline, the music legend that she’s portraying in the musical play that opens the landmark 40th season of the Virginia Stage Company, Always…Patsy Cline. The actress...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 1, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The Little Theatre of Virginia Beach production of the musical Hairspray brings to their near-Oceanfront stage a happy ending “story of acceptance,” filled with upbeat early 1960s song and dance, accompanied by a big (for local community...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 11, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey As the Hampton’s uniquely intimate American Theatre closes out its 30th anniversary season and artistic director Richard Parison completes his first year at its helm, a programming first fulfills a promise for the venue to look both back and...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 21, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Soprano Rachele Gilmore makes her Virginia debut) By Montague Gammon III Any contest for the maddest of all operatic mad scenes, the one that plants its flag on the whistling blue pointed peak of an art form that routinely trades in extreme emotions grandly...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 27, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Skinflint Scrooge is back at the Wells Theatre, along with his ghostly and human companions, in a new Virginia Stage Company production of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol that features new music, new costumes, a new set, and a make-over for...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Oddly enough, it was a conversation on a porch in Maine, with television writer Bill Svanoe about the music of the sixties, which eventually lead Virginia native, Mike Wiley, to create The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders....
