by Chris Rohmann | Aug 11, 2011 | Stage
“I think there’s something inside us, every one of us, that freezes up when we see anyone different. It’s like a gate that slams down so we can feel safe behind it.” Two world-premiere plays in the Berkshires this week grasp both sides of that...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 18, 2011 | Stage
First there was a small woman, alone on the bare stage, relating a horrifying story of epic proportions that seemed to fill the dark echoing space. Then a couple of guys cramped inside a five-foot Plexiglas cube delivered a zany, rapid-fire evisceration of the art of...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 25, 2011 | Stage
Two women-led companies are performing this month in unlikely but appropriate venues. The Berkshire Actors Theatre makes its debut, on a claustrophobic little stage above the Beacon Cinema in Pittsfield, with a farce about the incestuous world of Hollywood...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 1, 2011 | Stage
“Theater is not dead; it is the definition of alive. In these days when you can’t even get a real person on the phone to place a complaint with the electric company, what a luxury to have living breathing humans in front of you, fervently believing in a...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 1, 2011 | Stage
All four summer theater shows I caught last week begin with a defining sound: a musical motif, a ship’s horn, a laugh, a hammer on nail. Each one, heard before the lights even come up, gives us an aural clue to what we can expect of the play’s style and...
