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Dreamgirls Interview: Tom Quaintance and Anthony Stockard

Virginia Stage Company couldn’t be more excited to welcome the Hampton Roads Community to the Wells Stage as it marks it’s fifth co-production with the talented and accredited artists at Norfolk State University Theatre Company in the form of Dreamgirls.

If you’re not excited yet then please take a listen to the words from Dreamgirls director and Norfolk State University Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director Anthony Stockard and VSC’s PAD Tom Quaintance as they exclaim the excitement, joy, and energy that is going to grace the Wells Theatre Stage.

This is a show you won’t want to miss! Make sure to get tickets at www.vastage.org/dreamgirls today!

Director Thomas W. Jones on the setting of DETROIT '67

Director Thomas W. Jones on the setting of DETROIT '67

β€œThere were new manufacturing jobs in Detroit, and with that came people moving out of apartment-like and project-like homes into two-story and one-story homes. With a home came a space called β€œa basement”, which for Black middle-class life (and for my life growing up) was a repository of dreams. It was a place where you went to imagine …”

DETROIT '67 Director Thomas W. Jones II on Dominique Morisseau & the landscape of American Theatre

DETROIT '67 Director Thomas W. Jones II on Dominique Morisseau & the landscape of American Theatre

β€œDetroit β€˜67 is written by one of the most emerging, phenomenal artists of our generation, Dominique Morisseau, who is a part of a handful of African American women who are redefining and creating a Renaissance in the theatre…”