by Chris Rohmann | Jul 8, 2015 | Stagestruck
Three plays on regional stages this week – two at Williamstown Theatre Festival and one at New Century Theatre – have at their center strong women confronted by life-changing choices. Coming from three different eras of American theater, they nevertheless address...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 8, 2015 | Stagestruck
There are people in other parts of the country, reports Sabrina Hamilton, who still think New England is an all-white enclave of Mayflower descendants. “Not my Valley!” she cries, and to prove it, she cites hearing nine languages spoken in a recent visit to Puffer’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 26, 2015 | Stagestruck
Berlin is a city of cranes. Giant cantilevered arms hover over the skyline like H.G. Wells’ Martian war machines, still engaged in rebuilding what was bombed out in World War II or, in East Berlin, largely neglected until the Wall came down in 1989. I’d last seen...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 30, 2015 | Stagestruck
Ghosts are stalking Western Mass. stages this week. Five productions I’ve seen recently are haunted – figuratively or, in a couple of cases, literally – by spectral presences that inform and impel the action. Two of them are reviewed below. The others, now playing at...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 23, 2015 | Stagestruck
Two Valley theaters open their summer seasons this week, hot on the heels of two others completing their initial runs this weekend. The performances showcase the wide variety of work we’ve come to expect from the region’s hot-weather troupes. This week’s shows...
