by Chris Rohmann | Oct 11, 2013 | Stagestruck
Jonathan is dead. His ashes are in an urn on the side table and his wife, Zaida, is packing his things away in boxes. Then the front door opens and a man walks in “wearing his face”—Jonathan’s long-lost twin brother Ernie, too late to say...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 11, 2014 | Stagestruck
“It’s so subjective, isn’t it?” wrote a friend recently, sending me a glowing review of a play we’d both seen and both failed to glow over. Most of us critics do try to be objective, putting aside, or at least acknowledging, our...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 25, 2014 | Stagestruck
Left-Coast Classics Dateline Berkeley — Just because it was Christmastime, and we were visiting family and friends on the West Coast, didn’t mean I wasn’t going to see as much theater as I usually do. And I did, starting in holiday style with a...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 10, 2014 | Stagestruck
Every year or so, London’s +Royal National Theatre presents an original family-oriented play as a holiday-time entertainment. They’re often adapted from classic children’s or young-adult literature, inventively and often elaborately...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 19, 2014 | Stagestruck
I don’t go to the movies very often. It’s not that I don’t like movies, I just spend so much time seeing plays there’s little time for films. But there’s one cinema I attend regularly—to see plays. For five seasons, +the Amherst...
