by Chris Rohmann | Apr 15, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Stage, Stagestruck
Jeannine Haas confesses that she “got through 21 years of formal education without ever reading the Iliad,” and that when she was first preparing to perform the one-person play based on that epic, “I thought, ‘Oy, it is gonna be a pain to read.’ But honestly, it was a...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 14, 2015 | Stagestruck
You can’t say the Five College theater programs aren’t eclectic. So far this season we’ve seen everything from Shakespeare to Williams to Ruhl to experiments with future forms. And this weekend, shows on two campuses come at us from opposite ends of the spectrum: a...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 13, 2015 | Stagestruck
If you’re an avid theatergoer – and if you’re not, what are you doing here? – I urge you, if and when you’re next in London, to take the backstage tour at the National Theatre. After many visits to the National over the years, last month I got around to doing just...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 7, 2015 | News
Jeannine Haas confesses that she “got through 21 years of formal education without ever reading the Iliad,” and that’s why, when she was first preparing to perform the one-person play based on that epic, “I thought, ‘Oy, it is gonna be a pain to read.’ But honestly,...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2015 | Stagestruck
Early in Steve Henderson’s two-character dramedy Jerry and Ed, Jerry gives us a summary of his relationship with his pal Ed, and of his own character, too: “Did you ever have a friend who always seemed to get you into trouble? Well, so did Ed.” Jerry and Ed is a...
