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...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 20, 2008 | Stage
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...
by by Sarah Gibbons | Nov 27, 2008 | Stage
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...
