by Chris Rohmann | Nov 24, 2011 | Stage
You quite possibly read it here first: the full unexpurgated title of the latest play to tie The Paper of Record in knots, the play that’s currently receiving its American regional premiere in Hartford. When it was on Broadway last season, the New York Times and...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 16, 2012 | Stage
There is a house in New Orleans they call the Blind Pig’s Sty. And there is a penthouse in Gay Paree… which has nothing in common with that other house—except there’s presumably lots of offstage sex in both. What ties the two together,...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 1, 2011 | Stage
The bumper sticker reads “We still say Merry Christmas,” in defiance of the season’s “Happy Holidays” generalization. Yuletide has irretrievably become a secular season in which the most popular non-liturgical celebrations and...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 27, 2011 | Stage
The Amherst town seal pairs images of a plow and a book, reflecting the town’s parallel agricultural and academic history. A new soap opera serial with a local slant plays with both of those identities, but takes its title from the town’s joky, unofficial...
by Advocate Staff | Feb 23, 2012 | Stage
In the performance and discussion Decoding Our Past: Spirituals and the Underground Railroad, Christine Clemmons-McCune offers a look at the tradition of the spiritual. Feb. 25, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Bing Arts Center, 716 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, (413) 731-9730.
