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...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “This is a big show!” exclaims Chris Hanna, former Artistic Director of the Virginia Stage Company, and current director of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic play, Our Town, which continues VSC’s landmark 40th season following last...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey As a comedian, Jeff Foxworthy has about done it all — 26 best-selling books, comedy-recording artist, radio, television, movies. He’s even been the voice of Handy in the animated film “The Smurfs.” What Foxworthy is best known for, however, are his...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 25, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Opening with a multi-genre Tony Award winner by a great 20th Century American composer, and closing with a great operatic tearjerker, Virginia Opera’s 44th Season includes a “rom-com” by Gaetano Donizetti, Mozart’s look at the romantic conquests...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 19, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “She has so many hits,” says actress Sandia Ahlers with a laugh, referring to Patsy Cline, the music legend that she’s portraying in the musical play that opens the landmark 40th season of the Virginia Stage Company, Always…Patsy Cline. The actress...
