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...
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...
