by Chris Rohmann | Dec 2, 2010 | Stage
TheaterWorks, which calls itself “Hartford’s Off-Broadway,” celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Over a quarter century, this little arts engine that could has made its basement theater an essential venue and transformed the historic Art Deco...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 9, 2010 | Stage
The weekend before Thanksgiving, the seventh edition of the 24-Hour Theater Project was staged in Northampton. In the space of one day, six plays were written, rehearsed and performed. The Advocate’s theater critic, Chris Rohmann, was one of the directors....
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 16, 2010 | Stage
Tony Simotes was just getting comfortable in the artistic director’s chair at Shakespeare & Company when he found himself flat on his back. An on-and-off company member since the troupe’s founding in 1978 (there’s a picture of him as a young...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 16, 2010 | Stage
A whirligig is a spinning top, pinwheel or other whirling device, revolving madly in a repetitive cycle. The term has become an idiom for giddy motion: a merry-go-round, the social whirl or, as Shakespeare put it, “the whirligig of time [that] brings in his...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 23, 2010 | Stage
“In the theater, it’s all about timing, isn’t it?” Kate Maguire is commenting on the concatenation of circumstances that doubled her job description last month. Until then, she was wearing two hats: artistic director and CEO of the Berkshire...
