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....
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 20, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
TV icon will sing standards at The American Theatre By Jim Roberts Tony Danza has been a fixture in show business since he first appeared on the iconic sitcom “Taxi” in 1978. Though he’s also appeared in more than 20 movies, Danza’s greatest successes have come in...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 26, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The incandescent fury of a seductress scorned, fueled by ethnic hate, lights up the Harrison Opera House stage when Camille Saint-Saens’ Samson and Delilah opens Virginia Opera’s 2017-18 Season. Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor Adam...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2017 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips When Joseph Pulitzer arrived in Boston by ship from Hungary in 1864, he was a penniless 17-year-old mercenary whose passage had been paid by the Massachusetts military recruiters. He immediately enlisted in the Lincoln Calvary and fought...
