by Jeff Maisey | Dec 23, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema The number of documentaries submitted to the Academy Awards this year that were eligible for Oscar consideration was an imposing 145 titles. A number way too large for any one person to view. The total was then whittled down by the...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 1, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Stage Company’s Associate Producer (and long time Assistant Artistic Director) Patrick Mullins, who directs the 2016 restaging of VSCs’ annual, family-friendly production of A Christmas Carol, took some time between directing his own...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 23, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts The Zeiders American Dream Theater opened a temporary performance space in Virginia Beach Town Center in 2015 and has quietly been building its reputation in the shadow of the 10-year-old Sandler Center, which is literally steps away. The musical “Love,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 16, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It’s pretty fascinating to witness the return of Rent into our current politically polarized and media obsessed Zeitgeist. The rock musical, a loose adaption of Puccini’s La Bohème, was one of the defining theatrical phenomenons of the nineties,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 16, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema After two years of enduring the daily assault by media surrounding the presidential election, one might ask, just how independent is the press in our country? And how does our press compare to other countries in the world? The...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 2, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A wildly madcap, vividly colorful, gleefully and respectfully updated and “especially Spanish” production of Rossini’s ever popular Barber of Seville comes to the Harrison Opera House as Virginia Opera’s second production of the current Season,...
