by Chris Rohmann | Apr 15, 2010 | Stage
One is considered Shakespeare’s most “masculine” play. The other takes place in two largely female domains: feminist academia and the minimum-wage workplace. This weekend, those contradictory worlds clash in two productions on area campuses, both of...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 15, 2010 | Stage
“But suddenly,” says the narrator of Anton Chekhov’s satirical short story “The Death of a Clerk,” about to describe an unexpected, life-changing sneeze. And then he pauses. “This ‘but suddenly’ occurs often in...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 16, 2010 | Stage
There’s a new kid on the cyberblock, a child of mixed parentage and ambivalent identity. The Good Ear Review is an online literary magazine that celebrates the art of the dramatic monologue—short one-character sketches that capture character, place and...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 22, 2010 | Stage
One man is running for his life, and one is running his life into the ground. One of them has the look of a classic vigilante cop from TV and movies, but he’s no knight in dirty armor. The other is the hero of a classic spy thriller who now finds himself in a...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 23, 2010 | Stage
The 10-minute play is a relative newcomer to the contemporary stage, but it has grown like ivy. Numerous festivals, how-to courses and script collections are devoted to the mini-genre, which has also spawned a particularly addictive variant. The format’s...
