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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 13, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
BY JEFF MAISEY Ben Hope and Katie Barton co-star in the exciting new musical theater work “Ring of Fire,” which pays homage to the music of Johnny Cash. The production is the 2017-18 season opener for Virginia Stage Company and its new artist director, Tom Quaintance....
