by Jeff Maisey | May 5, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III She’s won awards, or been nominated for them, for Shakespeare and soap opera and songwriting and Off-Broadway, she’s been a Latina junkie stripper in the late 20th Century and the rapping socialite sister-in-law (and maybe secret love) of...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2022 | News, News & Views
(Bagpipers are a fan-favorite during the Virginia International Tattoo. Pictured in the foreground is Pipe Major Peter Grant for the Royal Regiment of Scotland – 4 Scots. Photo courtesy of Virginia Arts Festival.) By Jeff Maisey An essential ingredient each year...
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 15, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(James McMurtry is back on the road in support of “The Horses and the Hounds.” Photo by Mary Keating Bruton.) By Jim Morrison It’s the details that make James McMurtry’s songs compelling character studies. That and the melodies, of course. There are the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Aamira Challenger, Katie Housley, Palymyra Mattner, Joshua Liburd, and Conner Keef. Photo by Darryl Estrine. Aquila Theatre’s The Great Gatsby.) By Montague Gammon III The Aquila Theatre’s casting of The Great Gatsby, coming to the Norfolk’s Attucks Theatre...
