Big Oh-One

by | Jul 18, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows

There are oh so many things in the world (and just my little life) to preoccupy and worry me. You read the news. You know. You have your little life. You know. But today, Only in Northampton, the Facebook page I began on a whim—maybe even a dare—turns one....
NT Live, Live

NT Live, Live

by | Jul 2, 2014 | Stagestruck

Since the NT Live series of satellite broadcasts of performances from London’s National Theatre debuted five seasons ago, I’ve seen almost all of them. The Amherst Cinema is one of hundreds of venues that bring the stage shows to far-flung audiences who wouldn’t...

Jacob's Pillow Eclectic

by | Jul 9, 2014 | Stagestruck

“The Vinegar Works” began with an in-joke for PBS viewers: a recitation of Edward Gorey’s ghoulish alphabet poem “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” (“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears…”)...

Big Apple/Big Easy

by | Jul 27, 2014 | Stagestruck

Ring Lardner was the master of comic fiction with a cynical edge and George s. Kaufman the master of urbane Broadway farce. When they teamed up in 1929 to adapt a Lardner show-biz story, the result was June Moon, an urbane romantic comedy with an ironic edge that...