by Chris Rohmann | Mar 10, 2015 | Stage, Stagestruck
“This is how I feel about the 24-Hour Theater Project: I think doing it is nuts.” That’s Elizabeth Foley, one of the organizers of Northampton’s annual festival of instant theater, which blooms and dies again this Saturday. The event, which she describes as...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 5, 2015 | Stagestruck
Matthew Lopez has attached two epigraphs to his new play, Reverberation, now receiving its world premiere at Hartford Stage. One is from Jane Jacobs’ classic study of the American metropolis (“… cities are, by definition, full of strangers”) and the other is from...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 3, 2015 | Stagestruck
“It’s an exciting time for art-house cinemas,” says Carol Johnson, executive director of the Amherst Cinema Arts Center. What she’s enthusing about isn’t movies, however, but plays. Valley theatergoers’ access to professional stage productions by global companies is...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 25, 2015 | Arts, Leisure, Music, Stage
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by Chris Rohmann | Feb 25, 2015 | Stagestruck
The playwright, says the director, “aims high here, treating … gender roles in relationships, the brutality of class difference and how it can create a crazy storm [and] serves it all up in a palatable way. What I love about the play — and what, I think, makes it...
