by Chris Rohmann | Dec 25, 2008 | Stage
"I think we're coming into a time when we need to rethink everything—the way we relate to each other, and the way we bring people together."That's Linda McInerney, director of a new production of that old favorite, A Christmas Carol, which...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 15, 2009 | Stage
Winter is at its height, the economy is in the gutter, and so are your spirits. It might be just the time to raise the latter with some truly silly entertainment. If so, a couple of musicals that opened last week could be just the ticket.Seeing Idols of the King at...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 1, 2009 | Stage
Conventional theater wisdom has it that you can only be a professional actor in New York or Los Angeles, or at least in a metropolis like Boston or Chicago. But if the mark of a professional is working regularly and getting paid for it, there are actors here in the...
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...
