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 | Mar 15, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Jessi DiPette plays Patsy in “The Ribbon Mill.” Credit: Josh Stubbs Photography) By Jim Roberts Unless you were a die-hard theater fan living in Memphis in 2002, you probably haven’t heard of a play called “The Ribbon Mill.” But if you’re adventurous enough to take...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Maya Days, who played roles in Law & Order (1990), Damages (2007), and Melange (2020), is now cast in “Fountain of You” at Zeiders. By Jim Roberts Faye Chiao and Tasha Gordon-Solmon are working artists in New York’s theater industry, but their new musical...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 1, 2022 | Film, Stage & Film
By M.T.C. Gammon I didn’t expect to find tales of class war in either slashers or superhero films, but an interest in Tim Burton’s work led me to try watching both Sweeney Todd (really more of a musical melodrama) and Batman Returns. I found that...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 14, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III It’s a murder mystery every bit as baffling as any Agatha Christie whodunit; it’s a look at the African-Americans who were an under-recognized part of our Greatest Generation. It’s about stereotypes and how people of any race can succumb...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
( Director Jessica Holt) By Jerome Langston “It’s been an incredibly challenging 20 months to be a theater artist,” says Jessica Holt, early on in our conversation about her latest directorial work for Virginia Stage Company, The Thanksgiving Play. A bit earlier in...
