by Jeff Maisey | Apr 11, 2018 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey As the Hampton’s uniquely intimate American Theatre closes out its 30th anniversary season and artistic director Richard Parison completes his first year at its helm, a programming first fulfills a promise for the venue to look both back and...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 1, 2018 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It takes only a few minutes of conversation with Los Angeles based writer/performer/director, Khanisha Foster, to realize that Virginia Stage Company’s producing artistic director, Tom Quaintance, made a very good decision in booking Foster to...
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...
