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...
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...
