by Chris Rohmann | Aug 8, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
When Shakespeare & Company first set up shop in the Berkshires, their mainstage was a greensward before a wooded glade at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s Lenox estate, with the audience seated on folding lawn chairs. That tradition has lately been revived, with outdoor...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 3, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a frequent and popular visitor to the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. This year, celebrating its 40th season, the company presents a quartet of works showcasing its history and its current 16-member troupe, one of the most technically...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 1, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
A trio of two-character plays now running in the Hilltowns and Berkshires offer a summer-season variety of subjects, styles, and even venues – a black-box theater, a converted town hall, a church sanctuary. Pauline Productions is dedicated to “producing and creating...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 29, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Nowadays, Stratford-upon-Avon feels not so much like a town as a gift shop. The once-sleepy hamlet where William Shakespeare was born some 450 years ago, which he abandoned for a life on the London stage, has become a mercantile monument to Stratford’s most famous son...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 26, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Review, Stagestruck
When I was in England earlier this month, I saw four plays at the two venues most closely associated with William Shakespeare – his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe playhouse on London’s South Bank. At the Globe, there was a gender-switching Hamlet and a...
