Tom Quaintance walked a visitor around the renovated Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk with the pride of ownership. The Virginia Stage Company, which he leads as producing artistic director, actually rents the ornate show-place, a national historic landmark, for $1 a year from the city. But really, the Wells is the Virginia Stage Company and …
For the second consecutive year, Virginia Stage Company will present David Sedaris’ comedically brilliant essay turned one-act play The Santaland Diaries to give grownups — naughty or nice — additional cheer as a complement, or sorts, to Dickens family-friendly A Christmas Carol…
Last weekend, Virginia Stage Company opened its new, immersive production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town at the Wells Theatre. Our Town follows ordinary lives in a fictional town called Grover’s Corners in the early 20th century. The play within a play is a celebration of joys, pains, promises, and the human experience; it’s beloved as a standard of theater in American high schools, begging the question, “What will Virginia Stage do differently?”
Sandia Ahlers has spent much of her young professional life being Patsy Cline, and it’s easy for the actress to slip into the country music singer’s voice…
“She has so many hits,” says actress Sandia Ahlers with a laugh, referring to Patsy Cline, the music legend that she’s portraying in the musical play that opens the landmark 40th season of the Virginia Stage Company, Always…Patsy Cline. The actress is new to VSC, but is certainly not new to portraying Patsy, as she…
"We long for other worlds. For all our individual reasons, which are varied and true, we long to experience the elsewhere. Be it movies, books, tv, theatre, dance, or museums, we welcomingly fall into other places. These places can provide opposition or solidarity, but always stir empathy within. They may be wholly different or strikingly similar to our own worlds but we are never alone in these places to which we have escaped. We become invested in characters and viscerally respond to their triumphs and failures. By the very essence of the human psyche, we see ourselves in these stories regardless of place or status and Virginia Stage Company's recent production of Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is proof of that."
“A Christmas Carol” is a story of redemption, and this year’s Virginia Stage Company production of the classic tale contains its own redemption story in the form of its Tiny Tim...
At Virginia Stage Company it’s not just about producing plays. It’s about creating a theater experience that everyone can enjoy. “The work we have done in terms of accessibility is important work,” says the Norfolk theater company’s associate producer Patrick Mullins.
The Hampton Roads Show interviews 'Mr. & Mrs. Fezziwig' (Ryan Clemens and Meredith Noel) from Virginia Stage Company's production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing at the Wells theatre December 8-24, 2017. http://wavy.com/2017/12/05/the-festive-fezziwigs/
I must admit, with some remorse, that I went into this show not knowing anything about Parchman Farm and not very much about the Freedom Riders. That changed in a hurry...
Tom Quaintance walked a visitor around the renovated Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk with the pride of ownership. The Virginia Stage Company, which he leads as producing artistic director, actually rents the ornate show-place, a national historic landmark, for $1 a year from the city. But really, the Wells is the Virginia Stage Company and …