by Jeff Maisey | Jan 22, 2019 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Virginia Stage Company production will hit home for LGBTQ community By Jerome Langston When director Jessica Holt and Virginia Stage Company’s producing artistic director, Tom Quaintance, met in New York City last year to discuss the possibility of her directing Fun...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 14, 2018 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema We love documentaries at the Naro. Our midweek New Non-Fiction Film series with speakers and discussion continues to gain popularity in the age of Trump. As we search for what’s wrong in our system that has given us such a dystopian...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 3, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey For the second consecutive year, Virginia Stage Company will present David Sedaris’ comedically brilliant essay turned one-act play The Santaland Diaries to give grownups — naughty or nice — additional cheer as a complement, or sorts, to Dickens...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 28, 2018 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Michael Curry The Richmond Ballet accompanied by The Virginia Symphony brings its highly acclaimed production of The Nutcracker to Chrysler Hall for the sixth consecutive year, December 7 – 9. The Nutcracker is to ballet what Handel’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 11, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Musical finds new audiences after being jilted on Broadway By Jim Roberts “It Shoulda Been You” had a short run on Broadway—it closed after only 135 performances—but the musical quickly found a second wind in local theaters all over the United States....
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III One of Western literature’s earliest anti-heroes, Don Giovanni, a.k.a. Don Juan, returns to the Virginia Opera in Mozart’s 1787 Don Giovanni, at a time when his stereotypical persona is being viewed most attentively, in ways that are very...
