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Stagestruck: Becomings

Stagestruck: Becomings

by Chris Rohmann | Nov 8, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

In the Valley this weekend and next, there’s a show in which a man becomes a woman, one in which a man becomes a feminist, and a few more that feature (mostly) women who promise to become hilarious. The latter shows all spring from the same fertile source, Pam...
Stagestruck: Fall Harvest – a cornucopia of theater, music & dance

Stagestruck: Fall Harvest – a cornucopia of theater, music & dance

by Chris Rohmann | Oct 26, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

Next month on area stages (and a screen), three shows that place women front and center, bucking prejudice, expectations, even labels. Plus, a musical farce featuring a woman with a goatee. That one first. Die Fledermaus, the fall offering from Valley Light Opera, is...
Stagestruck: A Happenin’ Weekend

Stagestruck: A Happenin’ Weekend

by Chris Rohmann | Oct 19, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

Two shows happening in Franklin County this weekend (c’mon Hampshire, it’s not that far) – one an actual happening, the other a comedy about politics that we could wish were actually happening. The comedy, opening at Silverthorne Theater Company on Friday for a...
Stagestruck: Angela and Lefty

Stagestruck: Angela and Lefty

by Chris Rohmann | Sep 19, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

I went to college with Angela Davis, though we moved in different circles. One of us was a campus radical, marching for peace and justice, the other was a serious student focused on getting good grades. The good student was Angela; I was the peace-marcher (and...
Stagestruck: Love and War

Stagestruck: Love and War

by Chris Rohmann | Sep 18, 2022 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck

The funniest show I’ve ever seen onstage I didn’t see onstage. It was One Man, Two Guv’nors, the runaway hit that began at London’s National Theatre, went on to Broadway, and made a star of James Corden. I saw it onscreen at the Amherst Cinema, part of the NT Live...
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