Two's Company

Two's Company

Three two-handers this week: a couple of elderly widowers looking back on their lifelong friendship; a Gothic spoof with two actors playing all the roles; an ancient epic retold in a collaboration between a storyteller and a musician. Let's begin with that last...
The Pros of Con

The Pros of Con

No one wants to be a sucker. And Hollywood is obsessed with the more deceitful and gutsy among us, those who would make us suckers.The live show Hoodwinked! arrives at Springfield's CityStage this week to demonstrate the art of the con. The show stars four...

Lemon's Hood

Lemon is a star of hip-hop performance poetry. Like most of his colleagues on the spoken-word stage, he came up through the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and honed his craft in the poetry slam scene. He was a member of the hip-hop theater ensemble Universes when they premiered...
It's a Wonderful Play

It's a Wonderful Play

Much like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and A Christmas Carol, Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is a Christmas season must-see. This year, instead of just catching it on the boob tube, head down to West Springfield and watch...
Revelry and Devilry

Revelry and Devilry

'Tis the season. In the next few weeks, troupes all over the region will be rolling out their annual Christmas Carols and Nutcrackers. In Hartford, TheaterWorks is getting a jump on them all with The Seafarer, an unlikely bowl of Yuletide wassail from the most...