by Jeff Maisey | Apr 17, 2017 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I have been advised by my wife against tackling the topic of this month’s column–she feels that I’m not qualified to write about the relationship between food and health. You see, I’m not a cook and I would rather watch Michael Pollan’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 31, 2017 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The magic of true love conquers all the vicious and deceptive spells that a malicious sorcerer can conjure up when the balletic and spectacular enchantments of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Swan Lake officially open the 2017 Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 20, 2017 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I never gave cats much thought. My wife and I were long-time dog people and didn’t really know any cats. But all that changed a few years ago when a neighborhood stray came into our lives. He was a young black cat that retreated from any...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 16, 2017 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, from 1924, is a fable about sex and death, and about fearing (and not fearing) sex and about not fearing (and fearing) death. This love story, as it is often called, is “not about finding the right person for...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 25, 2017 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Howie Mandel is well known for his TV work over the last 12 years—first as the host of “Deal Or No Deal” and then as a judge on “America’s Got Talent.” Viewers under the age of 40 may be surprised to learn that Mandel started out as a stand-up comic in...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 17, 2017 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Ricardo Melendez “Shakespeare in Motion” is a combination of two of my greatest passions: the power and wit of Shakespeare’s stories and my dedication to the awe- inspiring beauty and physicality of the language of Dance. When art inspires art there is both a...
