by Chris Rohmann | Feb 5, 2015 | Blogs, Columns, Stagestruck
They just don’t make musicals like they used to. Except when they do. Nice Work If You Can Get It, playing at the Bushnell in Hartford through February 8th, is a 1920s musical that premiered on Broadway in 2012. It was whipped up by Joe DiPietro from the skeleton of a...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 4, 2015 | Stagestruck
The Royal National Theatre’s NT Live initiative beams theater performances live (or time zone delayed) via satellite from its London stages, and occasionally from other British theaters, to cinema screens around the world. Now the popular series has hopped the pond to...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 3, 2015 | Arts, Stage, Stagestruck
I was in Singapore last month when, by happy coincidence, the Singapore Fringe Festival, an annual showcase of alternative theater and visual arts, was underway. Over half of the festival’s 11 productions were homegrown, and I caught four of them. The performances (in...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 1, 2015 | Arts, Columns, Stage, Stagestruck
As the year has drawn to a close, I’ve been looking back over the hundred-plus shows I’ve seen in 2014. And as the seasons begin to turn from the dark back into the light, I’ve been thinking about some of those theater moments when a dark theme was...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 1, 2015 | Stage
“The watchword of improv,” Pam Victor reminds us, “is yes, and… ” That means going with whatever your scene partner throws at you, and adding something of your own that moves things along. Victor and her fellow improvisers in The...
