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...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 24, 2011 | Stage
WFCR Public Radio interrupted its programming on May 29 to relate, in stunned cadences, the incomprehensible news that Bob Paquette had died. After surviving lymphatic cancer, followed by an unrelated persistent infection, he was taken suddenly and paradoxically by an...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 30, 2011 | Stage
Two landmarks of the golden age of Broadway musicals are currently on stage in the region. One is probably the most perfectly constructed and unerringly tuneful musical comedy ever. The other is a cheeky homage to probably the most beloved, heart-warming (insert your...
