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...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 15, 2011 | Stage
The play has just ended. It was good—talented actors in a convincing production of an engaging script. It wasn’t the most hilarious, moving, stimulating or groundbreaking show you’ve seen this year, but it was solid and enjoyable, and you’re...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 22, 2011 | Stage
It’s coincidental, but entirely appropriate, that the Theater Project opened its 15th anniversary season at the Majestic Theater last week on the day after what would have been Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday. Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story is the show that...
