by Chris Rohmann | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
Two classics this week—one the stage adaptation of a beloved American novel and its iconic film version, the other a classical tale that barely squeaks into the Shakespearean canon. Both productions, now playing on area stages, are interesting, instructive and,...
by Ryan Duffy | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
William Inge's 1955 play Bus Stop is perhaps best known as an award-winning film starring Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Keith Langsdale, the version staged at West Springfield's Majestic Theater aims to strip the play down to its basic elements and to let the...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
Milosevic at the Hague is half whimsical biography, half courtroom drama (complete with a table-turning climax) and half dreamplay that weaves together real and imagined events and personages. And no, that's not faulty arithmetic. This show really does add up to...
by Stephanie Kraft | Mar 5, 2009 | News
The Massachusetts power deregulation law of the late 1990s, which allowed the building of so-called "merchant" power plants unrelated to the old regional utilities, is leading to the rise of small new power companies with their eyes on one of the...
by Alan Bisbort | Mar 5, 2009 | News
It's not coming back. The party's over. This isn't some temporary blip in the economy that a little belt-tightening will fix. One less latte and a smaller, "fuel-efficient" SUV will not this problem make go away. It would be nice to have all that...