by Alex Ross | Jan 15, 2009 | Stage
Grab your flannel shirt, cultivate that five o'clock shadow and get to West Springfield for what promises to be "an unabashedly sparkling romp in the woods." Playwrights Fred Alley and James Kaplan (the minds behind the hit Guys on Ice) return to bring...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 1, 2009 | Stage
I saw 73 plays this year, and covered 30 of them in these pages and on WFCR Public Radio. I also directed five shows and performed in three. Call it a passion, call it an obsession, it's what I love. As the year draws down, I've enjoyed looking back over those...
by Becca Liss | Jan 22, 2009 | Stage
In a country as big as the United States, the concept of nationalism can sometimes seem enormous, so it might be easier to resort to statism. Of course, the realities of being a Vermonter or a Bay Stater or a New Yorker are always far more complex than a pithy...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 29, 2009 | Stage
All of Andrea Hairston's plays are about the same thing. That's not a criticism. Over 30 years, her work with Chrysalis Theatre has formed an interconnected series of pieces that converge in recurring themes: violence, racism, women's strength, the...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 29, 2009 | Stage
Dying City is one of those plays in which secrets and mysteries get unraveled bit by bit in high-octane confrontations and confessions. But at the end of Christopher Shinn's highly lauded play (a Pulitzer finalist last year), when all the plot threads were spun...
