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,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(The Cast L-R: John Ahlin as Frank, Beth Glover as Virginia, Alexandra Lemus as Tania, and Michael Earle Farjardo as Pablo) By Jerome Langston Very little is left of an intense workday of rehearsal that preceded my current interview time with director Tinashe...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III One Virginia Arts Festival audience will get the world’s last look at the works of the Jessica Lang Dance Company, as the multiple award-winning troupe wraps up eight years of performing with their final concert as a company. Their Chrysler Hall...
