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...
by Jeff Maisey | May 6, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns to the Arts Festival to put yet another unique, hilarious, high pressure squeeze on the greatest playwright of the Western World. Reducing to 97 minutes a body of work that totals 867,711 words...
by Jeff Maisey | May 2, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Pilobolus, that truly unique dance company whose choreography melds the athletic with the aesthetic, offers its Virginia Arts Festival audiences a program of recently made works joined to pieces from its long established repertory, said...
by Jeff Maisey | May 2, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It’s on a rainy Sunday afternoon when I finally get the chance to chat with legendary Dance Theatre of Harlem alum and Norfolk native, Lorraine Graves. Ms. Graves has run her errands for the day, and is now tending to her remarkable mother, a...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 14, 2019 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I’ve recently come across a few popular artists who followed a calling to walk along the Buddhist path. They include the recently departed singer-songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen, known for such beautiful ballads as “Suzanne,” “Hallelujah,”...
