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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2018 | Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Tom Quaintance, Virginia Stage Company’s Producing Artistic Director, is excited about VSC’s 2018-2019 Season 40. Most broadly, he’s excited about a “collective mix of work that reaches all different parts of our diverse community.”...
