by Chris Rohmann | Mar 3, 2011 | Stage
It may seem odd that the UMass Theater Department’s next mainstage production is based on a Japanese children’s book. But Night on the Galactic Railroad isn’t children’s theater. Its author, Kenji Miyazawa, who died in 1933, is Japan’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 10, 2011 | Stage
An irony frequently recalled in theater circles is that Anton Chekhov called his bleak portraits of isolation, disappointment and despair “comedies.” It’s true that a kind of rueful half-smile plays at the edges of his major dramas—Uncle Vanya,...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 18, 2011 | Stage
As reactionaries in Congress contemplate savage cuts to arts and culture funding, and foundations continue to reel from the hit their endowments took in the Great Recession, small arts organizations are worrying more than ever about staying afloat. So it’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 7, 2011 | Stage
The plays that Andrea Hairston writes and produces with Northampton’s Chrysalis Theater persistently confront big, enduring issues: violence, racism, the trials and triumphs of women, the importance of community, the power of art. Those themes course through her...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 10, 2011 | Stage
“In nature, nothing exists alone,” wrote Rachel Carson in The Silent Spring, the 1962 best-seller often credited with launching the environmental movement. The idea that events, natural and unnatural, have overlapping, interrelated consequences is behind a...
