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...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2011 | Stage
“We should auction off backstage passes for this show so people can watch what’s going on behind the scenes,” Kara Midlam joked. She’s the costume designer for Shakespeare & Company’s current production, The Mystery of Irma Vep, a...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2011 | Stage
Two crime stories take the stage next week at area colleges. Both are new works by student playwrights who are interested in the nature of guilt and the mechanisms of deceit. Neither play is a whodunit; one is not even a whydunit. One looks back to the early 1960s, a...
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,...
