by Chris Rohmann | Dec 15, 2011 | Stage
“Okay, now do it like an angry owl.” Scott Braidman is staging publicity photos for Santacide. In this one, the character Holly, an angry teenager, is leaping over the living room couch during an adolescent tantrum. She’s no ordinary teen, though....
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 3, 2011 | Stage
One day last month, Kyle Kate Dudley had a meeting with the vice president of a large Springfield corporation. She was there in her new role as managing director of the Drama Studio, the Springfield youth theater and conservatory, pitching an idea for expanding the...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 2, 2012 | Stage
I’m sure Irish families are no more dysfunctional than others, but a pair of domestic tragedies that opened locally last weekend, in coincidental tandem, might send the message that they are. Both Eugene O’Neill’s towering classic Long Day’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 2, 2012 | Stage
One man traced an epic wandering journey from eastern Europe to northern Britain. Another occupied a quiet corner of this country till events catapulted him into the headlines. Next week, campus theater departments bring both men’s adventures to Valley...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 15, 2011 | Stage
What do David Sedaris, Hedda Gabler and Mikhail Bulgakov have in common? Not a lot, I’ll admit. But in this week’s docket of performances I found a common thread in the situations faced by Sedaris, the sardonic diarist of life as a Macy’s elf; Hedda,...
