by Jeff Maisey | Mar 21, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Steve Suskin’s excitement about playing Willy Loman in the Little Theatre of Norfolk’s production of “Death Of A Salesman” is palpable—even over the phone. “It is an honor,” he told Veer Magazine a week before the show opened. “This is one of the...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 21, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Soprano Rachele Gilmore makes her Virginia debut) By Montague Gammon III Any contest for the maddest of all operatic mad scenes, the one that plants its flag on the whistling blue pointed peak of an art form that routinely trades in extreme emotions grandly...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 18, 2017 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston As most Hampton Roads theater patrons know, Virginia Stage Company’s long-running production of A Christmas Carol is considered a holiday tradition that families must partake in—every, single, holiday season. Well this year, VSC is also producing a...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 27, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Skinflint Scrooge is back at the Wells Theatre, along with his ghostly and human companions, in a new Virginia Stage Company production of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol that features new music, new costumes, a new set, and a make-over for...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 18, 2017 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips Why do we humans care so much for certain living creatures and not so much for others? Obviously, we care most about our closely related flesh and blood, followed by the ethnic groups we were born into. Our identification expands out to...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Oddly enough, it was a conversation on a porch in Maine, with television writer Bill Svanoe about the music of the sixties, which eventually lead Virginia native, Mike Wiley, to create The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders....
