by Chris Rohmann | Mar 17, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Nick Payne’s time- and mind-bending play Constellations receives its local premiere this month at Gateway City Arts, a production of Ghost Light Theater, the Valley’s five-year-old purveyor of contemporary plays that speak to universal themes. The piece has made its...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 11, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Scott Braidman is giving me a tour of his workplace, the Hadley headquarters of Happier Valley Comedy, of which he’s the artistic director. It’s a bright, welcoming space in the Mill Valley Commons, a mixed-purpose building fronted by Route 9 and backed by cornfields....
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stagestruck
There’s a party going on in the basement of Chelle and Lank’s house – an unlicensed after-hours drink-and-dance dive in inner-city Detroit. That is, until a police raid on a similar establishment explodes into violence and the neighborhood goes up in flames. Detroit...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two elder ensembles are this week’s headliners. The Berkshire-based WAM Theatre has just announced its plans for a troupe of women over 65, and the latest offering from the British stage in the popular National Theatre Live series features a cast of old folks....
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 15, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
At first glance, you’d think the two plays I saw in New York City last week have little in common. One is an international import from London to Broadway, the other an Off-Broadway transfer from a small regional theater in Vermont. One is twice as long as the other...