by Jeff Maisey | Apr 12, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III The greatest English writer’s bloody tragedy of ancient Scottish royalty, in company with the greatest American humorist’s fanciful tale of an ancient English court, comes to Christopher Newport’s Ferguson Center a few days after the Ides of...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 12, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Joe Lowrey This is a story about how two local guys combined passion, skill and determination to deliver their creative visions with lights, camera and action. That is what began to unfold about two years ago when Robert Stephens and Jeff Carleton started writing...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 7, 2015 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III A British performance artist successfully turned beauty queen, and a “stubborn” basset hound somewhat less successfully turned show dog, bring their irreverent and humorous two performer multi-media look at competitive beauty and...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 7, 2015 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Ballet Hispanico’s visit to the Virginia Arts Festival swirls (and leaps, struts, slides and lifts) through a Latino flavored look at matters as tangible as a kiss or as surreal as a Magritte painting. The sweet and spicy Salsa vocals of...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 17, 2015 | Film, Stage & Film
By Tench Phillips “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others? The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 4, 2015 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III What can you say about a beautiful young courtesan who dies? Well, oodles of folks have been saying – and singing and even dancing – quite a lot of things about one such star-crossed lass, variously named Marie/Marguerite/Camille/Violetta, since...
