by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Montague Gammon III Shakespeare in the Grove, Hampton Roads’ free of charge, annual summer, Tidewater Community College mounted outdoor showcase of one Bard written work per year, celebrates its 25th Season with an imaginative new staging of our region’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 7, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(K’Bana Blaq performs in drag. Photo by Charles Long.) By Jeff Maisey For some 20 years, many in Hampton Roads have experience K’Bana Blaq as one of the charismatic, upfront singers in The Fuzz Band. His fashion sense, dance moves, and vocal talent keep crowds...
by Jeff Maisey | May 26, 2022 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(Soprano Maren Weinberger as Leslie Sinclair in Rachel J. Peters’ opera ‘Companionship,’ Nine Photography) By Jim Roberts The mission of the Virginia Arts Festival’s John Duffy Institute for New Opera is “to add diverse, relevant and underrepresented...
by Jeff Maisey | May 19, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Kathryn Hunter-Williams) By Jerome Langston “Coming out of this pandemic, where it has been such an anxious, grinding two seasons, seemed like—that’s the piece I want to visit, as we are coming back together,” says Tom Quaintance, the Producing Artistic Director of...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 22, 2022 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston The February 2019 world premiere at TPAC’s Polk Theater of Nashville Ballet’s Lucy Negro Redux, a provocative and illuminating work of contemporary ballet that embraces spoken word poetry, narration and a range of acoustic music, garnered...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 18, 2022 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Jim Roberts Jennifer Chapman lives in Virginia Beach but works for Richmond Ballet. Her job—even before the rest of the world embraced telecommuting—is to help the dance company build an audience beyond Richmond and specifically in Hampton Roads. In the...
