by Chris Rohmann | Jun 17, 2010 | Stage
I had just finished E.L. Doctorow’s epic novel The March, which traces Sherman’s bloody campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas that ended the Civil War, when I caught up last weekend with The Whipping Man. The play, which opens the summer season at...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 18, 2010 | Stage
Stephen Sondheim is unquestionably the most influential figure in musical theater of the last half-century. His acerbic lyrics, angular melodies and world-weary themes have changed the personality of the Broadway show. Outside the rock musical and Lloyd Webber...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 24, 2010 | Stage
The Hampshire Shakespeare Company is beset by problems this summer. The notorious misogyny of the season’s opening show, The Taming of the Shrew, creates a problem for any director. Shakespeare’s predominantly male dramatis personae present a perennial...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 1, 2010 | Stage
Two fall-out-of-your-seat-laughing British comedies kick off summer in the Valley. New Century Theatre opens its 20th anniversary season with a revival of one of its all-time hits, Noises Off. And the Royal National Theatre’s production of the 19th-century sex...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 8, 2010 | Stage
Four major theaters anchor the Berkshire summer season: the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Pittsfield’s Barrington Stage Company and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. I’ve been covering their shows for a...
