by Jeff Maisey | Mar 2, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “I got wild in New York!” That’s almost the opening line of director Laley Lippard’s part of our recent conversation about Grounded, the last full run play of Virginia Stage Company’s current season. Lippard is not yet here, of course ─ she flies...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 19, 2016 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema It’s not every day that former Air Force drone operators go public and hold a press conference to give their accounts of the killing of innocent people. But that’s just what happened in December when four brave young men issued an...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2016 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” is hardly the sort of comment that the French born and accented, multi-lingual, multi-talented stage director-actor-designer-librettist-novelist-online journalist-educator-manager and all around theatre...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 27, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston I’ve always been deeply passionate about theater,” explains playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton during a recent phone call about her fascinating new play, The Hampton Years, which is being produced and presented by the Virginia Stage...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 9, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston Speaking to actor J. Harrison Ghee, a North Carolina native who was in Tampa for a Kinky Boots performance at the Straz Center when I recently interviewed him by phone, reminds me of the famous Oscar Wilde quote about life imitating art. Within just...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips It was recently announced that the American Planning Association (APA) has designated our very own Colley Avenue as the winner of the “People’s Choice” award as one of the Great Places in America in 2015. This recognition vindicates a lifetime...
