by Chris Rohmann | Apr 23, 2009 | Stage
The Ordinary Theater is no ordinary theater. What fascinates its founder and director, Mitchell Polin, isn't linear narrative but the thrill of capturing the "simultaneity of action" that surrounds us every day. "We're at our computer and three...
by Advocate staff | Apr 30, 2009 | Stage
With the aid of the arts councils of Amherst and Northampton and other sponsors, Easthampton's PACE hits the stage in Northampton this week with Falsettos, a pairing of two Tony Award-winning one-act Broadway musicals about a raft of interesting characters: a gay...
by Fraylie Nord | Apr 30, 2009 | Stage
Hold your breath, pucker your lips, and prepare for some sparkling, shimmying show girl and bad boy fun in FUSE, a circus of drag and burlesque. Curated, produced, and presented by Colleen McKeown, this acrobatic spectacle combines the talents of performers and...
by Chris Rohmann | May 7, 2009 | Stage
An epigraph in the script of …And Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi is a quote from the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca: "A play is a poem standing up." Marcus Gardley's play is indeed a poem—much of its dialogue is in sinewy...
by Chris Rohmann | May 7, 2009 | Stage
In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen don't put out fires, they start them. The tools of their trade aren't hoses but flamethrowers. In this dystopian future, Americans have become so dumbed-down by material gratification and passive media...
