by Chris Rohmann | Feb 18, 2010 | Stage
Imagine this scene: It's 1960, and John F. Kennedy is running for president. In a New York hotel room, he is strategizing with his brother and closest advisor, Robert Kennedy, about courting "the Negro vote." JFK is annoyed that baseball hero Jackie...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 18, 2010 | Stage
Everyman is the archetype of medieval theater. The 15th-century play follows a typical, flawed human in his search for suitable companions to accompany him on his journey toward death. In the end, the moral is that only Good Deeds will see you successfully into the...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 25, 2010 | Stage
"In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of …" sex, suicide, masturbation, wet dreams, abortion—and other young men.Frank Wedekind's daring play Spring Awakening was years ahead of its time—so far ahead that it...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 4, 2010 | Stage
The liaisons in Les Liaisons Dangereuses really are dangerous. In Christopher Hampton’s 1980s adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1780s epistolary novel of seduction and deceit, “the game” of sexual power and intrigue destroys two lives...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 11, 2010 | Stage
The cross-pollination of global cultures that gave rise to the omnibus genre known as world music has some equivalents in the dance world. This week, two different examples can be seen on area stages. With roots in Indonesia and the Pacific Islands, these visiting...
