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...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 29, 2010 | Stage
By some measures, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the northern anchor of the Berkshires’ summer arts scene, is twice as big an operation as its sister theaters, Shakespeare & Company, Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Theatre Festival. Much of this is...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 29, 2010 | Stage
The first two weekends of this year’s Ko Festival of Performance demonstrated the scope of this summer carnival of theater that defies and redefines convention. A solo performer recounted a dozen real-life stories; a six-person ensemble enacted a single...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 5, 2010 | Stage
Hampshire Shakespeare Company opened its season last month with a tight, taut Hamlet that featured a thrilling, pyrotechnic performance in the title role. PJ Adzima is still in high school, but he brought not only an adolescent vigor that made the prince’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 12, 2010 | Stage
“I wanted to make this a working person’s theater,” says Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company. She’s showing me around the company’s mainstage theater on Union Street in Pittsfield. The company’s move here...
