by Chris Rohmann | Jul 8, 2010 | Stage
David Mamet’s territory is the burned-out shell of the soul. His best-known plays and films are peopled with losers clinging to pathetic illusions, spitting out their bitterness in the elliptical, fragmented language that has come to be known as Mametspeak. The...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 15, 2010 | Stage
The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the great tragic love stories, as much a part of our collective unconscious as Romeo and Juliet’s. Lovers so deeply connected that when she dies, he follows her to the Underworld and sings his plea so beautifully...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 15, 2010 | Stage
Kate Maguire is in her 17th season as artistic director of the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge. (See also “Theater That Matters” in this issue.) BTF is one of the oldest summer theaters in the country, established in 1928 in a jewel-box playhouse...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 22, 2010 | Stage
Stretching. I’m stretching out unused muscles and ligaments with about 30 other people on a drizzly afternoon in Ashfield. There are a few other grayhairs in the room, but most of the bodies ranged across the floor in T-shirts, sweats and bare feet are young and...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 22, 2010 | Stage
“The more problems you’ve got, the more fun you have. The audience loves seeing the problems and how we solve them.” Director Kevin Coleman is in a circle with four young men, discussing a scene in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale in which...
