by Chris Rohmann | Sep 29, 2011 | Stage
Garrison Keillor tells a story from the early days of television, when flickering black-and-white images were luring audiences away from audio-only radio drama. A young boy, asked which he preferred, radio or TV, answered without hesitation, “Radio. Because the...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 22, 2011 | Stage
I was initially struck by the juxtaposition: a Greek tragedy—and a rather obscure one, at that—performed by students at a community college that I didn’t even know had a theater program. Then, when I saw Euripides’ The Bacchae last weekend at...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 6, 2011 | Stage
At the end of August, Flat Street in downtown Brattleboro became a free-flowing river as tributaries of the Connecticut, whipped up by Hurricane Irene, ruptured their banks. The New England Youth Theatre, one of the businesses affected by the flood, is “still...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 29, 2011 | Stage
I’ve been thinking recently about cross-gender casting. It came up again last weekend in Cymbeline at Shakespeare & Company, where 17 of the play’s 23 male roles were played by women. This was more a matter of necessity than an artistic choice. The...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 13, 2011 | Stage
Matt, the title character in Birthday Boy, is turning 40, a milestone that, as far as I could tell, every member of last Friday’s audience had long since left behind. The discrepancy made me think, and not for the first time, about the generational divide that...
