by Chris Rohmann | Jun 30, 2009 | Stage
Both Freud's Last Session, at Barrington Stage Company's Stage 2, and Faith Healer, in the Berkshire Theatre Festival's Unicorn Theatre, bore into questions of truth and illusion, faith and fraud. One takes the form of a dialogue between two rationalists...
by Michael Cimaomo | Jun 30, 2009 | Stage
Break out your blankets; it's time for some theatre in the great outdoors. To kick off its 2009 season of Shakespeare Under the Stars, the Hampshire Shakespeare Company proudly presents one of the Bard's most enduring plays: Henry IV, Part 1. Even though it is...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 27, 2009 | Stage
Sixteen-year-old Allie and her 11-year-old brother Cal have run away from their abusive father. They hole up in an Appalachian shack, where Allie does her best to be his mother too, and Cal feeds them both with fish from the mountain stream. The Catch explores...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 16, 2009 | Stage
In this summer of economic discontent, more theaters are turning to the time-tested ingredients of summer stock: comedies and musicals. I'll be covering a clutch of laff-vehicles next week, but first, three pieces of musical theater that couldn't be more...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 10, 2009 | Stage
Shakespeare's rough-and-tumble comedy The Taming of the Shrew gets a workout in Look Park's Pines Theater this weekend—and so does the cast in the Valley's newest theatrical ensemble, the August Company. Eight actors play all the roles, doubling up...
