Crossroads

Crossroads

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...
StageStruck: Window on the Balkans

StageStruck: Window on the Balkans

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...
Turtle Tales

Turtle Tales

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...
Behind the Beat: Sea of Birds

Behind the Beat: Sea of Birds

Sebastienne Mundheim describes her new performance piece, Sea of Birds as a "fragile paper sculpture animated by dancers, a lyrical voice, a sonic landscape, live musicians, light and shadow play." Performed in and around a giant white dome covered in...
Van Farrier, 1959-2009

Van Farrier, 1959-2009

When I interviewed Van Farrier late last year for a two-part Advocate article about professional actors living in the Valley ("Pioneer Valley Stage: Local Pros," Jan. 1 and "Going Pro: Plusses and Pitfalls of the Equity Life," Jan. 8, 2009), he was...