by Chris Rohmann | Dec 30, 2010 | Stage
This year, I’ve seen over 100 plays by over 100 playwrights living and dead, conventional and experimental, brilliant and not-so. One dramatist has grabbed my attention more than any other, and not only because more of her plays have been performed around here...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 30, 2010 | Stage
The other night I had the pleasure of dining out with three accomplished women of the Valley’s theater community: Jeannine Haas, artistic director of Pauline Productions, Linda McInerney, artistic director of Old Deerfield Productions, and Linda Putnam, a widely...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 3, 2011 | Stage
This year, Valley theaters took even more than their usual quota of risks, staging adventurous pieces in provocative ways and, in many cases, unusual places. Herewith, a dozen shows that tested limits, challenged expectations—and surprisingly often, came in...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 10, 2011 | Stage
As Hamlet lies dying in Horatio’s arms, he implores his friend to “absent thee from felicity a while, and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story.” That dying wish, uttered at the end of Shakespeare’s play, inspired Zak...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 17, 2011 | Stage
The scene: a TV studio, home of “a hot new youth-oriented Moscow television production company.” Through a window, the interior of a caf? across the street is visible. In the studio, six young media professionals work, chat and flirt. They are contemporary...
