Stage Reviews & Coverage
Stagestruck: Vincent Dowling, 1929-2013
Our critic remembers a consummate man of the theater.
 By Chris Rohmann
Filling the Gap
Vermont Performance Lab offers dance artists a home for up-close and personal performance and research.
 By James Heflin
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun took the reader on a harrowing, heartbreaking...
 By Chris Rohmann
Stagestruck: Guys in Tights
Campuses stage male-centered classics, with a difference.
 By Chris Rohmann
An Ordinary Couple
A new play explores a new state of marriage.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: The Most Fabulous Lesson
A controversial high school play becomes a learning experience.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Cutting through the Grey Goo
Area campuses confront social issues and social media.
 By Chris Rohmann
By Storm
The Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school’s Catalyst Dance Company celebrates 15 years...
 By James Heflin
Un-daunting The Bard
"Willliam Shakespeare—a man from a hick town with a high school education.” With that disarming...
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: On the Bus
A theatergoing day trip yields rolling commentary.
 By Chris Rohmann
“Blasphemous:” Say What?
You wouldn’t think of Scott Goldman, principal of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public...
 By Advocate Staff
StageStruck: Baryshnikov, Earthbound
The iconoclast of dance is older but still buoyant.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: An Epic Collaboration
Area artists and hilltown schools put Middle Earth on stage.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Theater Ecology
No Theater’s Caveman at A.P.E. embodies an enviable cluster of local arts.
 By Chris Rohmann
One Sweet Festival
Each spring, the reawakening of the region’s maple trees serves as inspiration for an intergenerational...
 By Chris Rohmann
Beauty Is…
Maureen is overweight and single, her sister Sheila is slim and married, and neither of them is getting...
 By Chris Rohmann
La danse éclectique
If you don’t already know Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, the company’s name is sufficient...
 By Chris Rohmann
Circus in Vermont: Big Top Skills
The New England Center for Circus Arts teaches hard-to-come-by skills, things like flying via trapeze....
 By James Heflin
StageStruck: Lies Like Truth
A “translaptation” revives a musty classic.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: The Decimal System
This midwinter festival in Pittsfield multiplies by 10.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Co-Conspirators
Two next-door-neighbors revive the same thriller.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Shifting Bodies and Assumptions
A South African theater in residence at UMass explores loss and recovery.
 By Chris Rohmann
SC + SNL = UCB
T hink of it as Second City meets Saturday Night Live . Upright Citizens Brigade mixes long- and...
 By Chris Rohmann
A Man of Stature
This week, the Philip Hayes Dean play Paul Robeson arrives at the Theater Project, and stars local...
 By James Heflin
StageStruck: Up from the Ashes
Reviving from trauma through the “theater of witness.”
 By Chris Rohmann
Stagestruck: Playing in Harmony
In some plays, music is almost a character.
 By Chris Rohmann
An American Magistrate
The National Theatre Live series of high-def satellite broadcasts beams live performances from Britain’s...
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Triple Threat
This play is a trifecta of styles.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Two for the Show
All theater is about relationships.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Casting the Audience
When theater is more than a spectator sport
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Community Competition
Was Valley Gives Day a bonanza or a battlefield?
 By Chris Rohmann
Seasonally Subversive
Working at Macy’s over Christmas made David Sedaris a household name—in NPR households,...
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Anarchic Carol-ing
A holiday classic gets the PaintBox treatment.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Being “Me”
D’Lo celebrates his/her queer/Hindu/hip-hop identity.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Our Town in Our Town
The Center for the Arts bids farewell to its 30-year home.
 By Chris Rohmann
Stage: Bi-Polar
This holiday season the Monson-based Greene Room Productions offers not one but two performances of...
 By Tom Sturm
Stage: Plucky Princess
She’s not a real princess, but Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale of a little rich...
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Double Take-aways
A report from the Valley’s “fringiest” festival
 By Chris Rohmann  
StageStruck: The Tempest, Twice-told
A new dance-theater piece replicates the classic.
 By Chris Rohmann
Fringe Benefits
Downtown Greenfield hosts a weekend of playmaking and placemaking.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Not-So-Kind Hearts
Murder and masochism on Hartford stages
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Death by Machine
UMass theater’s all-woman season opens with a whydunit.
 By Chris Rohmann
Quick-Change Classic
Backstage at Shakespeare & Company’s comic thriller "The 39 Steps"
 By Chris Rohmann
Apocalypse Now
“For many young people in the computer age, massive multi-player online video games become a...
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Singing Truth to Power
A new play explores the politics of art.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: All-Weather Bard
For Shakespeare, there's no off-season.
 By Chris Rohmann
The China Syndrome
A middle-aged man, dealing badly with his Oklahoma parents’ refusal to attend his recent same-sex...
 By Chris Rohmann
Stagestruck: Autumn Harvest
October brings a bumper crop of new shows.
 By Chris Rohmann
Stagestruck: Pursuit of Pleasure, and Parity
Two solo shows reflect flip sides of the American Dream.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Brotherly Blood
Love it or hate it, this class-conscious musical's a crowd pleaser.
 By Chris Rohmann
It's Not Just Child's Play
This festival showcases the breadth--and depth--of puppet theater.
By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: On the Spectrum
Stage-to-screen theater takes another big step.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Four for the Show
This quartet of actors brightened the summer's stages.
By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Cover-ups and Dis-coveries
Four shows play with themes of concealment and revealment.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: WHAT's Up at the Harbor
Our critic takes a busman's holiday on Cape Cod.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: 50 Feet Tall
A new play looks at modern genius in the Shakespearean mold.
 By Chris Rohmann
Playing Catch-Up
Our theater critic samples the season so far and what's in store.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Form and Substance
Serious Play! devises an homage to a dance-theater visionary
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: King and Goddess
Shakespeare & Company reinterprets two pillars of the canon.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Two Singular Sensations
Berkshire Theatre Group follows A Chorus Line with a tribute to one of its creators
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: From the Fringes to the Vanguard
By not selling out, KoFest is now selling out.
 By Chris Rohmann
Stage: Between Two Worlds
Chester Theatre Company straddles the Valley and the hills.
By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Da Godmuddah
Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners gets a mob makeover.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Cheapies and Freebies
Summer deals and steals for the thrifty theatergoer
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Star Power
At Shakespeare & Company, star vehicles for "family" members
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Sound and (E)motion
A play built on theater games launches New Century's summer.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: "This Ugly Beauty"
The August Company messes around with (gasp!) Shakespeare.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Headlong Lives
Two new plays examine characters in conflict.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Time Running Out
An American epic grapples with the elusive American Dream.
By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Evil in the Schoolyard
Plays explore the physical and psychological scars of bullying.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Stepping into the Thirties
Two "vaudevilles" capture an era of crisis and hope.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Rude Awakening
This is not your parents' high school musical.
 By Chris Rohmann
Theater of War
Two arts events connect audiences to real-life combat experiences.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Split Personality
A new theater company straddles the state
 By Chris Rohmann
Radium Girls
"Nobodies" confront a corporate Goliath in a dramatic liability case.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Escape From Darkness
Two escapist comedies brighten stage and screen.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Uncommon Womyn
A new play brings an iconic classic full circle.
 By Chris Rohmann
The Bard: 400 Years Young
Demystifying Shakespeare's language with jokes and hijinks
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Citizen Artists
A festival of devised work responds to an environmental disaster.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Seeing Red--and Black
Red explores an artist's ego, obsession and darkness
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Our Middle Town
"Flashes of universals" in the archetypal small town
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Theater Done Backwards
The 24-Hour Theater Project turns playmaking on its head.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Syrupy but Not Saccharine
This festival celebrates springtime and a revered village venue.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Urine Trouble
The cheeky metamusical is in town.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Reverberating Moments
Local stages explore long days' journeys through past and present.
 By Chris Rohmann
Five College Dance in Concert
March 1-3
 By Advocate Staff
StageStruck: From Motl to Mogul
A new play joins the parade of movies about the silent movies.
 By Chris Rohmann
The Tradition of the Spritual
Feb. 25
 By Advocate Staff
Imagining Truth
A world-premiere opera sings the life of an American?and local?heroine, Sojourner Truth.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Uppity Women
The Learned Ladies brings Shakespeare & Company full circle.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Compare and Contrast
Two plays inhabit the same time period but different worlds.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Descent Into Academic Hell
A "recovering mathematician" describes her experiences in a male domain.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: The Tailor and the Chimps
Two plays view historical events through unique prisms.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: The Learned Ladies
...and other plays about (but mostly not by) women
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: In the Bleak Midwinter...
It turns out there's lots of theater to look forward to.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Breaking the Rules
Our critic salutes theater that celebrates theater-ness.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: A Bit of a Buddhist
Theaters are finding the secret smile in Chekhov's Russian gloom.
 By Chris Rohmann
StageStruck: Playing for Parity
Cross-gender casting puts more women on stage.
 By Chris Rohmann
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