by Chris Rohmann | Sep 16, 2010 | Stage
In The Arabian Nights, Princess Scheherazade subverts a debauched king’s nightly ritual of rape and murder by telling him stories. As Mark Vecchio interprets the tale, “The kingdom was becoming a wasteland, nothing had any meaning anymore. Her storytelling...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 16, 2010 | Stage
Before the audience are even all seated, a burly, bearded man in dirty fatigues shuffles onstage, unrolls a sleeping bag, lies down and wearily closes his eyes. He’s soon disturbed by a scruffy street musician who plugs his Stratocaster into a rolling amp and...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 23, 2010 | Stage
“Every time we do the festival, we think, ‘That’s it, we don’t have to do it again.’ But there’s just so much good work out there, it’s irresistible. We have to present it.” That’s Eric Bass, co-founder/director of...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 30, 2010 | Stage
“It’s much too dark.” “It’s repetitive and boring.” “This is not entertainment.” The scene was the Theater Project’s rehearsal studio in West Springfield. The occasion was a series of staged readings of new plays....
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 7, 2010 | Stage
I grew up in the small college town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, a world of woods, cornfields—and Shakespeare. Every summer for six glorious years, Antioch College mounted a Shakespeare festival led by Arthur Lithgow, an Antioch professor and consummate man of the...
