Virginia Stage Company's Black Light Puppet Theatre was chosen as an Exemplary Program and Pinnacle Event, as a part of The Virginia Commission for the Arts' "50 for 50 Arts Inspiration Award" recipients.
Black Light Summer Sessions, 2017
VSC & NSU Bring Inclusive Vision to Norfolk
BWW reviews THE WIZ
New Journal and Guide Interviews Darius Nelson for THE WIZ
The Virginia Stage Company (VSC)/Norfolk State University (NSU) collaborationon the production of The WIZ at the Wells Theatre has provento bea hit this spring. The VSC/NSUjoint venture is a rekindling of the 1974 stage hit The Wizwhich was an Afrocentric interpretation of the famous movie The Wizard of OZ, that...
ALTDAILY.COM reviews THE WIZ: "Not One to be Missed"
New Journal and Guide reviews THE WIZ
When L. Frank Baum published his classic novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in 1900, he likely had no idea that the subsequent 1902 Broadway musical adaptation, “The Wizard of Oz,” would one day receive frequent productions featuring exclusively African-American casts. The latest local rendition, jointly staged by Norfolk State University and the Virginia Stage...