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...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Many of us are now waking up to the cold hard truth that...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 25, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The Virginia Opera’s 8th annual, free and open admission, “Opera in the Park” concerts this year showcase the talents of the company’s chorus, whom VO Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Adam Turner calls “the hardest working singers...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 15, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The line from the locally produced, strikingly well lit and often quite beautifully photographed indie film Eyes of the Roshi that could become one of those oft repeated catch lines of popular utterance is “It’s a good one. I can tell.” (Like...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema “The secret of life is to die before you die and find that there is no death.” – Echart Tolle It’s been over 50 years since a few intrepid souls on the faculty of Harvard University in the early sixties re-discovered the psychedelic...
