by James Heflin | Sep 17, 2009 | Stage
The purveyors of puppety goodness join forces with Northampton's Primate Fiasco, a band of Dixieland proclivities and circus-like abandon. The event is dubbed The Happy Pill Circus, and promises to be a theatrical good time of rare dimension.It's sponsored by...
by Rachel Holliday | Jul 16, 2009 | Stage
If the kids are getting restless in July, take them to see an interactive performance of Winnie-the-Pooh at the Paintbox Theatre in Northampton. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger will be there, led by local storyteller Tom McCabe as A.A. Milne, author of the Pooh tales....
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 24, 2009 | Stage
Arthur Miller is considered by many to be America's Greatest Playwright, with only Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams the other obvious contenders for the crown. Interestingly, all three were prolific dramatists but their reputations are founded on less...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 16, 2009 | Stage
During the intermission of Dividing the Estate, my companion said, "Does this take place in the '50s?" No, it's 1987, but the small Texas town it's set in seems frozen in time, and Horton Foote's script feels like it was written 50 years ago....
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 1, 2009 | Stage
The opening scene of The Porch is one of the out-and-out funniest and most perfectly formed comic set pieces I've ever seen: three elderly ladies sitting on wicker chairs, two of them trying to explain to the other, without getting too graphic, exactly what it was...
