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...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A woefully obscure bit of American history, a shameful episode from an era that also produced some of our country’s greatest glories, takes life on the Harrison Opera House stage this April as part of Virginia Opera’s Variations Series. An...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2019 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A world premiere by Richard Alston Dance, one of the world’s premiere dance companies, highlights that company’s March 21 Chrysler Hall visit and mingles local talent with its seasoned professionals, even as the troupe approaches its farewell...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Khanisha Foster returns to Virginia Stage Company to direct another challenging play By Jim Roberts When Tom Quaintance, Virginia Stage Company’s artistic director, asked Khanisha Foster to direct “Disgraced” last year, she originally said no. When he asked again, she...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 13, 2019 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montage Gammon III Virginia Opera closes its current season with Giacomo Puccini’s great heartbreaker, Madama Butterfly. Arguably one of the two great tear jerkers in the operatic repertoire – Puccini’s La Boheme being the other – it’s also one of the...
