by Jeff Maisey | Jul 20, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema Many of our local cultural and performing arts organizations are on hiatus for their summer vacations. To help fill the void, the Naro has programmed a plethora of artistic film events and summer film series. Along with our annual...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 28, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A line that ties Norfolk’s NEON Arts District and the Work|Release venue on Granby Street to a globe spanning host of filmmakers and dancers, musicians and visual artists from Europe, Asia, Israel, Italy, New York, Chicago and California,...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I live in an interspecies household. We consist of a male and female human, two female canines, and two male felines. Each of us had originally lived solitary lives–some of us having grown up on the streets. We have all been brought...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 21, 2016 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts It’s no secret that Busch Gardens’ “Celtic Fyre” show was inspired by “Riverdance,” which debuted in 1995 and popularized Irish stepdancing all over the world. Lesser known is the fact that Maggie Darlington, who danced lead in the original...
by Jeff Maisey | May 21, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema I was stunned to recently learn that the revenue of the biggest 500 multinational U.S. corporations now makes up 72% of the country’s GDP (gross domestic product). And the remaining part of the economy? That’s what all the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III At the eerie border between this world and the next, wrapped within the blurry boundary that separates what’s natural from what’s not, traveling near the snow bound Scottish-English border in the uncommonly frigid winter of 2010, academic...
