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,...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 27, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The “music driven” production of Oliver Twist that partners Virginia Stage Company and the Governor’s School for the Arts is not to be confused with the familiar show Oliver. There’s more than one twist that turns this one away from the...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 20, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts “I’ve done some vulgar stuff,” Shon M. Stacy mused after directing a rehearsal of “Silence! The Musical.” “This will top it.” The off-Broadway show is billed as the “unauthorized” parody of “The Silence of the Lambs,” the 1991 film that won five...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 12, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema As a young boy growing up in Norfolk in the early 1960s, I had a vivid and expansive imagination. But for a time my dreamworld was drained of color and my dreamscape turned into a bleak, black and white world. I had recently watched the...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Festivals, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Opera’s “bold and different” – even daring or courageous – pairing of the gallopingly familiar Pagliacci with the much less well known Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht Seven Deadly Sins opens its current four show mainstage Season...
