by Jeff Maisey | Feb 6, 2017 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It is early in my phone conversation with actress Jasmine Guy that I remember what I’d loved about our first time chatting, back in 2014, when the triple-threat performer first brought her Harlem Renaissance show to the 757. Jasmine keeps it extra...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 20, 2017 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The grand reopening of the Virginia Stage Company’s newly renovated, historic Wells Theatre home in downtown Norfolk, January 20 at 6:30 p.m., features a ribbon cutting ceremony, local musicians and tours of the facility, followed by a new...
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,...
