by Chris Rohmann | Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
The KO Festival of Performance opened last weekend, kicking off a diverse five-week season clustered around the theme “Tactics for Trying Times.” First up was Jimmy & Lorraine, written by Talvin Wilks and developed with Hartford’s HartBeat Ensemble. The playwright...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 10, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
There’s a disclaimer of sorts in Jack Neary’s director’s note for The Foreigner, New Century Theatre’s season opener, playing through this weekend in its temporary digs at PVPA, the area’s performing arts high school in South Hadley. In it, Neary acknowledges that...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Are we finally breaking through the color bar in American theater? Is the tokenism represented by theaters programming one “diverse” play during Black History Month giving way to broader representation and bolder casting choices? Judging from the area’s summer theater...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 30, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
Two shows now running in the Berkshires are rooted in the past but right up to the minute. Both Tireless, playing this week at Jacob’s Pillow, and Ragtime, at Barrington Stage through July 15, take their inspiration from the music of a bygone era while inviting us,...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 27, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
The publicity for Downstairs, which opened at the Dorset (VT) Theatre Festival last week, gives rather short shrift to the fact that it’s a world premiere by the prolific Theresa Rebeck, whose plays Bad Dates and Mauritius are also being produced in the region this...
