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Stagestruck: Putting Down My Pen

Stagestruck: Putting Down My Pen

by Chris Rohmann | Dec 28, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

I filed my first article for the Advocate in May 1986. This one is my last. After 36 years and some 2,000 reviews, previews, features, interviews and musings, I’m giving up my ticket to the critic’s proverbial aisle seat and taking my place in line at the box office....
Stagestruck: Backstage Stars

Stagestruck: Backstage Stars

by Chris Rohmann | Dec 13, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck, Uncategorized

One night last month I was at the Academy of Music for a show, and there, behind the concession stand, was Nikki Beck. “Are there three of you?” I asked, amazed. She laughed and said, “Probably.” Nikki is one of the busiest theater people around. You’ll never see her...
Stagestruck: Christmas at the Darcys’

Stagestruck: Christmas at the Darcys’

by Chris Rohmann | Dec 4, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck, Uncategorized

In this season of entertainments that cater to our appetite for cozy tradition (I’m talking about you, Nutcracker, Messiah and Christmas Carol), two shows next weekend hit the nostalgia nerve from a different angle, adding a holiday-themed sequel to a classic love...
Stagestruck: Wit and Wile on the Riviera

Stagestruck: Wit and Wile on the Riviera

by Chris Rohmann | Nov 28, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

As winter approaches, National Theatre Live serves up a summertime tonic (as in, gin and).  The live-capture of the National’s stylish Much Ado About Nothing screens twice this month in the big theater at Amherst Cinema, the Valley’s indispensable film house. Director...
Stagestruck: Riot Grrrls

Stagestruck: Riot Grrrls

by Chris Rohmann | Nov 17, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

When I was in London this fall, I saw two shows that turn received history on its head. In the West End, I finally caught up with the long-running mini-musical SIX, in which the half-dozen wives of Henry VIII sing their side of the story. And at the Globe, a new,...
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