by Chris Rohmann | Jun 3, 2010 | Stage
Zero Mostel was a larger-than-life personality and an outsize talent. Jim Brochu is no featherweight either. As a youth, Brochu idolized that rhinoceros of an entertainer, then grew into a body that rivals Mostel’s impressive physique, and now has created a...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 4, 2010 | Stage
This is a big year for playwright/poet/teacher/activist Magdalena Gomez, who has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors in the past few months. For example: Teatro V!da, the Springfield-based youth theater company she founded, was named 2010 Outstanding Arts...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 4, 2010 | Stage
In this time of economic uncertainty, when a lot of theaters are sticking with the tried and true, Chester Theatre Company is going for something untried and new for them. Three-quarters of the company’s four-play season will be given to Arlene Hutton’s...
by Mark Roessler | Jun 10, 2010 | Stage
In the center of a paved cul-de-sac, in the middle of an otherwise empty field, stood a woman, statue-still, absorbing the fading evening light. She wore a magnificent hoop skirt that looked from a distance to be made of rose petals. Her arms were frozen in the air. A...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 10, 2010 | Stage
I’m not a native New Englander, but I’ve been a Red Sox fan long enough to have had my heart broken in 1986, when an impossible series of errors cost them the World Series and for many fans confirmed, yet again, the intractability of The Curse. The...
