Archives for Stage
Nijinsky Returns to Arts Festival
By Montague Gammon III
The one-man show Nijinsky's Last Dance, which stunningly marked the debut of Norfolk's Workshop Theater Group in 2006 before garnering praise and ...
Supreme Dreamgirls
By Jerome Langston
In an Oprah show approved sort of way, Charity Dawson has been preparing for the role of Effie Melody White since she was ...
Todd’s Take on Les Noces
By Jeff Maisey
Composer Igor Stravinsky may have transformed ballet forever, but leave it to Norfolk dance phenom Todd Rosenlieb to reinvent that spirit of innovation.
Stravinsky’s ...
A Royal Ballet
By Montague Gammon III
First of all, it’s entertainment.
Classical ballet absolutely must succeed as entertainment, points out Birmingham Royal Ballet Director David Bintley.
He makes the point ...
Review: Whipping Man a Cracking Good Show
By Montague Gammon III
The Virginia Stage Company’s gripping, exquisitely performed and staged production of The Whipping Man, Matthew Lopez’s two act drama set in the ...
Intimate Sex Kitten Cabaret
Cigarette: Symbol of a diva
Meow Meow’s vamp revolution puts the fringe in Arts Festival
By Jeff Maisey
The lights in the intimate theater are dimmed out ...
Ironies of Slavery Unchained in The Whipping Man
Virginia Stage Company's dramatic Whipping Man
By Jerome Langston
A rare thing is happening this Saturday afternoon, in a rehearsal space housed within the new offices ...
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Montague Gammon III
Stage director Sam Helfrich promises that the Virginia Opera Association production of A Streetcar Named Desire, composer André Previn’s treatment of Tennessee ...
Camelot Review: A Wisp of Glory
A Wisp of Glory
By Montague Gammon III
Perhaps the Virginia Opera production of Camelot is most charitably regarded as a gesture of good faith, a public ...
Frog Kiss Review
Brilliant, boundlessly energetic, buoyant, exuberant, and beautiful in manifold ways, the Virginia Stage Company’s world premiere of Frog Kiss is exemplary of the artistry and ...