http://www.valleyadvocate.com/section.cfm?uid=68 Copyright 2013 The Valley Advocate TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 AM MST en-us Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16869 This weekend, southern Vermont becomes a hotbed of exciting experimental theater from Vermont Performance Lab and Sandglass Theater. Not What Happened (pictured) is a new piece from three-time Obie award-winning writer/director/performer Ain Gordon. The piece includes images from Marlboro photographer... By James Heflin http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16869 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16872 Two shows opening this week at Barrington Stage Company illustrate the poles theater can occupy: On the Town , a big, kick-up-your-heels musical originally created to raise wartime spirits in the 1940s, and Muckrakers , a terse, tense two-character drama sprung from today’s headlines. On the... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16872 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16845 S pring isn’t officially over and already the summer theater season is underway. Two shows are up and running in the Berkshires, with dozens more waiting impatiently in the wings. I count over 50 productions lined up in Western Mass. companies’ regular seasons through August, not including... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16845 Wed, 29 May 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16818 Sex is in the air on two Hartford stages. On one, sexual longing and confusion, Shakespeare style; on the other, the queen of sex talk. That would be Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist known for her witty, unabashed approach to bedroom issues. TheaterWorks presents a revival of Debra... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16818 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16792 W hen I first met Vincent Dowling in 1990, the year he founded the Miniature Theatre of Chester, he regaled me with tales of his early life as an itinerant actor, doing “fit-ups”—one-night stands on makeshift stages—in small towns all over his native Ireland. The thrill of... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16792 Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16763 C ontemporary dance, often considered among the most rarefied of art forms, may not seem like something you’d find in a southern Vermont grange hall. Thanks to Vermont Performance Lab, however, rural southern Vermont has become an increasingly attractive place for dance artists. The Lab, proclaims... By James Heflin http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16763 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16745 Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun took the reader on a harrowing, heartbreaking trip into the head of Joe Bonham, a World War I soldier who’s lost not only his limbs but his sight, hearing and speech—a lump of “living flesh.” A radio adaptation in 1940... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16745 Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16707 “I feel like this play is an incredible amalgamation and a sort of a full circle of Valley talent,” says Julie Waggoner, who is half the cast of a new six-character play. She stars with Jeannine Haas in Red State of Marriage , written specifically for them by local playwright Peter Shelburne,... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16707 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16595 F our male characters dominate this week’s Valley theater. Not too surprising, considering women’s chronic underrepresentation in dramatis personae from the Greeks to the present, but a bit so, since two of the productions are at all-women’s colleges. Three of the plays are time-tested... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16595 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:00 AM MST http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16565 I n the end, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told was performed without incident—inside the Academy of Music, at least. Outside the building, another story was taking place. All three performances last month attracted demonstrators on both sides—literally—facing off across the walkway... By Chris Rohmann http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16565