by Chris Rohmann | Feb 26, 2009 | Stage
From its not-so-humble beginnings in the mid-'90s as the Off-Broadway sensation that dared people to say its title, The Vagina Monologues has grown into a movement. Less than a play and more than just a piece of theater, this collection of first-person anecdotes,...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
Two classics this week—one the stage adaptation of a beloved American novel and its iconic film version, the other a classical tale that barely squeaks into the Shakespearean canon. Both productions, now playing on area stages, are interesting, instructive and,...
by Ryan Duffy | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
William Inge's 1955 play Bus Stop is perhaps best known as an award-winning film starring Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Keith Langsdale, the version staged at West Springfield's Majestic Theater aims to strip the play down to its basic elements and to let the...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 5, 2009 | Stage
Milosevic at the Hague is half whimsical biography, half courtroom drama (complete with a table-turning climax) and half dreamplay that weaves together real and imagined events and personages. And no, that's not faulty arithmetic. This show really does add up to...
by Fraylie Nord | Mar 12, 2009 | Stage
Everybody knows if you snooze you lose, and nobody agrees more than Aesop's lounging Hare when he wakes to find the steadfast Tortoise crossing the finish line. Now The Great Race of the Tortoise and the Hare has been set in an interactive and family-friendly...
