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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston It takes a few minutes to fully acclimatize to Virginia Stage Company’s new temporary home—ODU’s modernly designed Goode Theatre, during a rehearsal break for the company’s ambitious brand new musical, I Sing the Rising Sea, which opens their 38th...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Twenty years ago, Jeffery Seneca starred in a college production of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940.” This month, he’ll make his directorial debut at the Little Theatre of Virginia Beach with the same show. “I think I’ve seen it now—both from...
