by Jeff Maisey | Nov 10, 2015 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey When Todd Rosenlieb arrived in Hampton Roads, modern dance was a rarity experienced only when the Virginia Arts Festival brought in a nationally touring company such as Mark Morris from April to May. While Michael Curry scheduled an occasional...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 26, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey Three of the four cast members of Menopause the Musical are breast cancer survivors. The disease is duly noted when the popular musical comes to the Sandler Center on November 3 and 5. Terri Adams – a survivor – has played the part of a Baby...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 20, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The opera La Bohème is a story of young love and heartbreak, and heartbreakingly young death. It’s back at the Virginia Opera’s Harrison Opera House, in a new production full of youthful energy and total respect for all that has made Puccini’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips Who we are as Americans has been formed by stories told and retold from the pulpit, in the classroom, and by the media. We have come to share many of the same unquestioned beliefs – that science and technology will solve everything, that we...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 16, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips, Naro Cinema In the anticipation leading up to the release this fall of Michael Moore’s first new film in six years, Where To Invade Next?, the Naro brings a series of new documentaries that explore the consequences of recent U.S. foreign...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 28, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Hell is open for (monkey) business, and even the gods are partying there. (Olympus is just sooo boring!). The Greek gods’ “Grand Galop” at that soirée, from Orpheus in the Underworld, gives Virginia Opera’s big free outdoor Opera in the...
