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...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 14, 2010 | Stage
When director Julianne Boyd starting doing research for her production of The Crucible, which plays this month at Barrington Stage Company, she went to the source. Arthur Miller’s most-performed play (another production opens next weekend at the New England...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 21, 2010 | Stage
In the myth of Persephone, the daughter of the harvest goddess is raped by the lord of the Underworld and taken down to his dark domain. Though she is ultimately released, he still has power over her and she must return to his realm for half of every year. That story...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 21, 2010 | Stage
Glorious summer has turned to yellow autumn (to mangle the Bard), but the lights are still on at three of the Berkshires’ summer theaters. The Crucible opened last week at Barrington Stage Company (see StageStruck, October 7, 2010) on the heels of ongoing...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 28, 2010 | Stage
If the name Hallie Flanagan rings any bells in the Valley, it’s probably because the black-box theater at Smith College is named for her. She was chair of Smith’s theater department in the 1940s and ’50s, and the marquee credit honors her service not...
