“Merry Little” Christmas Carol at VSC Hits All the Right Notes
Marley may have been dead to begin with, but A Merry Little Christmas Carol at the Virginia Stage Company’s historic Wells Theatre is full of life.
Small cast, big story in Virginia Stage Company’s ‘A Merry Little Christmas Carol’
The heavy fog that descends on the Wells Theatre stage announces that the Virginia Stage Company’s “A Merry Little Christmas Carol” will be a play of atmosphere and moods…there is an eeriness in any ghost story, and Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” from which this script is adapted, is arguably the English-speaking world’s favorite ghost story. While it has plenty of the expected suspense and hints of tragedy, this version of the three Christmas spirits reforming the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge is dominated by high-spirited joy, laughter and ebullient glee.
Virginian-Pilot: Arts Need Support
In this time of crisis, the need for stories — stories that move and entertain and challenge us — is obvious. The necessity of music that moves the soul and moves the spirit is crystalline. The desire to be taken out of ourselves has never been more achingly clear…
Virginia Stage Company to Receive $20,000 Art Works Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for Public Works Virginia Project
Virginia Stage Company has been approved for a $20,000 Art Works grant to support a world premiere theater production by Ronve O'Daniel and Jevares Myrick, co-creators of contemporary hip-hop musical Once Upon A Rhyme: A Musical Tale. Mr. O’Daniel and Mr. Myrick will write a hip-hop musical that will serve as both education and a celebration of the unique history of the Hampton Roads community.
VIRGINIAN-PILOT: VSC mines Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ for comedy gold
The Virginia Stage Company’s production of “Sense and Sensibility” tells you immediately that Jane Austen is in for a modern makeover…Yes, this will be Austen’s familiar tale of the Dashwood sisters, who must navigate the waters of wealth, class, heartbreak and love in 1790s England. But it will be told in a raucous way that aims for laughter more than drama, and gets plenty of it.
VEERMag: Finding Balance in Sense & Sensibility
Jessica’s journey to helming VSC’s production of Sense & Sensibility has been quite inspired. The San Francisco native has long been a fan of Jane Austen novels. “I was definitely that adolescent girl that was reading all of her books repeatedly,” she happily admits…
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