by Chris Rohmann | Jan 4, 2016 | Stagestruck
At the end of my 2014 summer-season review, which tallied the gender imbalance in the area’s professional theaters, I wrote, “I could also do a column about playwrights, directors and actors of color on the region’s stages. But it would be awfully short.” By which I...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 16, 2015 | Stagestruck
A dozen years ago, Allyn Burrows co-founded the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston, following several memorable seasons performing with Shakespeare & Company. Like Shakespeare’s own London troupe during its years between permanent playhouses, ASP is an...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
Winter is drawing in and I’m looking back on the many shows I’ve seen this year. Some have been naughty, most have been nice, and a few are getting lumps of coal from this reviewer. So here are my virtual awards — let’s call them “The StageStruckies”...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 10, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
Looking back on the 100-plus theater productions I’ve seen this year, I’ve noticed how many of them fall into pairs of various kinds. In my next column I’ll be handing out awards for the year’s best—and worst—productions and performances. But first, let’s take a look...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 6, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
Here’s the thing about theater: It brings performers and spectators together in a mutual act of imagination – and the simpler the stage, the greater the imaginative act. The lush British costume dramas that come to our TV and movie screens are essentially Classics...
