by Chris Rohmann | Mar 2, 2012 | Stage
Is it coincidence, or evidence of a cultural moment, that three of the films up for Best Picture Oscars on Sunday are about the silent movie era? I’m tempted to assume the latter, that our recurrent need to dip into the sweet pool of nostalgia is currently...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 10, 2011 | Stage
Not everyone who gets a dose of sodium pentothal—the infamous “truth serum”—as the first stage of preoperative anesthesia has a reaction like Deb Margolin’s. Instead of drifting into a dreamy twilight prior to losing consciousness, the...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 9, 2012 | Stage
It’s not every day the composer of the Broadway musical you’re preparing for a college production shows up at your rehearsals. But that’s what happened for the cast of Urinetown the week before it opened at UMass. Mark Hollmann spent several days in...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 9, 2012 | Stage
“I used to be a mathematician. I went to graduate school at M.I.T. And, please, before you get too impressed by that, just notice what I’m doing with my life now.” That disarming line opens Gioia De Cari’s solo show Truth Values. An actor,...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 9, 2012 | Stage
Five College Dance in Concert features work by Monica Bill Barnes, Diane Coburn-Brunning, Cathy Nicoli, Thomas Vacanti and Wendy Woodson. March 1-3, 8-10 p.m. $10, Kirby Theater, Amherst College, Amherst, (413) 538-2848.
