by Chris Rohmann | Oct 27, 2011 | Stage
In his 1933 memoir Down and Out in Paris and London, middle-class, Eton-educated George Orwell related his experiences living hand to mouth at the bottom of the social and economic heap. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s 2001 account of living among...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 19, 2012 | Stage
It’s the second week of January and I haven’t seen a single play so far this year. How am I going to feed my 100-shows-a-year habit at this rate? After the holiday season, or even before, theaters go into hibernation before re-emerging in the new year...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 24, 2011 | Stage
You quite possibly read it here first: the full unexpurgated title of the latest play to tie The Paper of Record in knots, the play that’s currently receiving its American regional premiere in Hartford. When it was on Broadway last season, the New York Times and...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Stage
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Blind Pig’s Sty. And there is a penthouse in Gay Paree… which has nothing in common with that other house—except there’s presumably lots of offstage sex in both. What ties the two together,...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 1, 2011 | Stage
The bumper sticker reads “We still say Merry Christmas,” in defiance of the season’s “Happy Holidays” generalization. Yuletide has irretrievably become a secular season in which the most popular non-liturgical celebrations and...
