by Chris Rohmann | Nov 6, 2008 | Stage
Oscar Wilde's short story The Canterville Ghost, written in 1887, is a parody that turns the tables on the classic ghost story. Sir Simon de Canterville, who died mysteriously in 1584, just loves scaring the bejesus out of people. But when the Otises, a thoroughly...
by Tom Sturm | Nov 13, 2008 | Stage
The Leading Ladies (pictured) boast the status "the only outlet for musical theater on the Smith College campus," and are still going strong as they stage their 14th production this fall. Since 2002, they've put on such classics as Lucky Stiff and A...
by James Heflin | Nov 13, 2008 | Stage
A few years ago, as a dedicated listener to the NPR show This American Life, I experienced a giddy radio moment. Having procured my This American Life secret decoder ring, I awaited the voice of Fred Foy, Lone Ranger radio announcer. I unscrambled the secret message...
by James Heflin | Nov 13, 2008 | Stage
Howard Zinn, the people's historian, also wrote a play called Marx in Soho. The play is a one-man appearance by the original communist, who's been given an hour and a half to come back from the dead to defend his ideas against those who corrupted and distorted...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 20, 2008 | Stage
Many of us in the Valley theater community mourned the demise of StageWest 10 years ago, and many deplored the new artistic direction taken by its replacement, CityStage. Where StageWest maintained a repertory company for many years, mounted original productions and...
