by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ~ Margaret Fuller, Woman in the 19th Century. Some years ago, while delivering a lecture on the women’s movement to one of my classes at Old Dominion University, I paused to ask my students...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 2, 2016 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “I got wild in New York!” That’s almost the opening line of director Laley Lippard’s part of our recent conversation about Grounded, the last full run play of Virginia Stage Company’s current season. Lippard is not yet here, of course ─ she flies...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2016 | Dance
By Jerome Langston Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. ~Alvin Ailey “I take probably even more risks,” remarks Robert Battle, artistic director of Alvin Ailey American...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 15, 2016 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews
By Betsy DiJulio Elegant and austere, Norwood Viviano’s gracefully attenuated and pendant and occasionally funnel-like “plumb bob” forms are, in fact, three-dimensional graphs of population growth and decline in 25 US cities from New York to Flint, Michigan,...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 15, 2016 | Classical, News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Dear JoAnn, It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since you and I put down roots in Hampton Roads. That’s right—I don’t know whether you remember this, but you and I both moved to Norfolk in 1991. The timing was fortuitous. When I moved here...
