by Jeff Maisey | Nov 21, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
Tony and Karla Robinson as George and Judy Kimball in Arts Enter Cape Charles’ production of Send Me No Flowers. Photo credit: Chris Roll By Sheila Vera “Especially during a time when we’re so divided, we strive to find plays that draw the community...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 1, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
Nick Fradiani as ‘Neil – Then’ (center) and ‘The Noise’ in “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical.” Photo credit Jeremy Daniel. By Jim Roberts “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” ran for less than two years on Broadway,...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 1, 2025 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Director Anthony Mark Stockard) By Jerome Langston “But ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ is a song I sang a lot, and it used to be my go to audition song,” recalls Anthony Mark Stockard, university professor and NSU Theatre Company’s producing artistic director, during a recent...
by Jeff Maisey | May 26, 2025 | Dance, Stage & Film
(“Black Sabbath – The Ballet” features music from the legendary British heavy metal band, Photo by Johan Persson.) By Montague Gammon III In yet another coup for the Virginia Arts Festival and its Perry Artistic Director Rob Cross, Norfolk hosts the...
by Jeff Maisey | May 20, 2025 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Dress rehearsal of Little Theatre of Virginia Beach’s production of “Ripchord.” Image by J. Stubbs Photography.) By Jim Roberts When “Ripcord” opened off-Broadway in 2015, The New York Times compared it to classic TV sitcoms like “The Odd Couple,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 24, 2025 | Featured, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Opera vocalist Flora Hawk) By Montague Gammon III The most important show to take the stage at the Harrison Opera House since the US premiere of composer Thea Musgrave’s Mary Queen of Scots in 1978 and the world premiere of her Christmas Carol in 1979, maybe even...
