Dreamgirls Brings Glitz and Glamor 

Dreamgirls Brings Glitz and Glamor 

(The Dreamettes. Photo by Sam Flint.) By Jerome Langston “I was holding on to this,” says Anthony Stockard, the producing Artistic Director of Norfolk State University Theatre Company, regarding his theatre company’s latest collaboration with Virginia Stage Company,...
Bluegrass Meets Jazz

Bluegrass Meets Jazz

  By Jim Morrison The list of Bela Fleck’s collaborators is a head-spinning kaleidoscope through modern music. Sam Bush and John Cowan in New Grass Revival, a group that redefined acoustic music. The out-there rhythm section of Roy and Victor Wooten and the...
Norfolk Fringe Festival

Norfolk Fringe Festival

By Jim Morrison Magda Giannikou, leader of Banda Magda, has synesthesia. When she see letters or words or hears chords of music, she sees colors.   “Every letter has a color and every word has a color. Every day of the week,” she says by Skype call from...
Christmas from Vienna

Christmas from Vienna

By Jeff Maisey   The Virginia Arts Festival will present the Vienna Boys Choir’s programmed called “Christmas in Vienna” December 20 at St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg and December 21 at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center. There are four touring groups...