by Chris Rohmann | Jul 21, 2015 | Stagestruck
In the National Theatre’s ultra-modern new Everyman, God is a London cleaning lady and Death an ironic Irishman with a shopping bag for a scythe. It’s the latest in the Amherst Cinema’s NT Live series of HD satellite broadcasts from the London stage, and it’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 16, 2015 | Stagestruck
Silverthorne Theater Company, the Valley’s newest and most adventurous summer troupe, held a new-play competition last winter. Out of over 400 nationwide entries, Aidan’s Gift, by Kentuckian Elizabeth Orndorff, was the unanimous winner. I say “adventurous” because...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 14, 2015 | Stagestruck
Two surprises came packaged in a couple of plays that opened last week. One of those I had eagerly anticipated, while the other was quite unexpected. In Shakespeare & Company’s latest staging of The Comedy of Errors, the Bard’s early farce about two pairs of...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 2, 2015 | Columns, Stagestruck
By cosmic coincidence, three shows now playing in the Valley and Berkshires feature three guys named Henry: Henry the Fifth, king of England; Henry David Thoreau, lord of Walden Pond, and Henry Antrobus, bad-boy son of the world’s first couple, whose real name is …...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 4, 2015 | Columns, Stagestruck
Michelle Dorrance’s swift rise as a key figure in contemporary dance can be charted via her brief history-so-far with Jacob’s Pillow. She first brought her boundary-breaking tap-dance troupe, Dorrance Dance, to the festival’s free outdoor showcase, Inside/Out, in...
