by Chris Rohmann | Jan 5, 2012 | Stage
I’ve seen 150 plays this year, and fully a tenth of them were by one playwright: Anton Chekhov. This is the guy Ira Gershwin was thinking of when he penned the lyric “With love to lead the way/ I’ve found more skies of gray/ than any Russian play/...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 20, 2011 | Stage
After a few weeks spent getting up to speed—auditions, rehearsals, juggling student schedules, all that backstage stuff—four of the Five Colleges’ fall theater seasons are poised to open. Over the next three weekends, we’re in for an absurdist...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 12, 2012 | Stage
People in the dark watching people in the light. Performers enacting a private reality while drawing their energy from the auditorium’s collective breath. The mysterious compact between actors and audiences, a shared understanding that without each other we...
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...
