by Chris Rohmann | Nov 27, 2008 | Stage
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...
by Kendra Thurlow | Dec 4, 2008 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 4, 2008 | Stage
'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...
by Becca Liss | Dec 11, 2008 | Stage
In a time when access to healthcare is a pressing concern for many, it isn't out of place to wonder what we would do to get it. Moliere's play The Imaginary Invalid takes a comedic look at this question with a hypochondriac father who seeks to marry his...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 11, 2008 | Stage
It begins in 1963, with a woman bleeding to death in a hallway of Harlem Hospital, the victim of an attempted coat-hanger abortion. Bill Baird, a 31-year-old medical researcher, witnessed that horrible, unnecessary death. The experience, he now says, made him into an...
