by Jeff Maisey | Jun 25, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
BY MONTAGUE GAMMON III Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has that claim to preeminence reinforced locally this week. . Shakespeare in the Grove’s big cast, Big Top, all stops out, Push-motored free admission production of Dream takes the...
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 | Jun 3, 2019 | Film, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey I went to see “Rocketman” during its opening weekend. I make a point of reading nothing about the movie in advance as I wanted to have an open mind going in, though admittedly last year’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was looming in the back of my...
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 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey Comedian/actress/recording artist Vicki Lawrence, best known for her role as Mama on CBS’s “The Carol Burnette Show” (1967-78), will bring her “two-woman” act to Ferguson Center on June 9. (NOTE:The Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show...
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...
