by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2017 | Classical, Music News, News, News & Views
Compiled by Staff tenThing Presented by Virginia Arts Festival March 23 Attucks Theatre Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth has won rave reviews in recital and headlining orchestra concerts from the BBC Proms to Carnegie Hall. She also leads a unique...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 18, 2015 | Stage & Film
By Jeff Maisey With Kooza, which sets up under the big tent for a full month in Virginia Beach, Cirque Du Soleil returns to its roots: acrobatics and clowning. I recently caught up with Colin Heath to learn more from a clown’s perspective. Acrobatics and...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 28, 2015 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Elizabeth Blachman This past September, I attended High Holy Day services for the last time at the last Jewish synagogue in Portsmouth. Rabbi David Goldstein presided over Yom Kippur services, and then Gomley Chesed Synagogue closed its doors, ending more than a...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 19, 2015 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio The Hermitage is an historic house museum. But it’s not just an historic house museum, nor even the same historic house museum that it once was. While it could be said that any museum is never quite the same as the day before, the staff and...
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...