by Advocate Staff | Apr 14, 2012 | Stage
In what’s become an annual event, Shelburne Falls’ Pothole Pictures offers the classic antics of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and the rest of the crew in the Looney Tunes Cartoon Festival. Music precedes the evening shows, with Coop Jazz on Friday and Leo T....
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 21, 2012 | Stage
Call me a philistine, but I don’t get, and therefore don’t much like, abstract expressionism. That movement, which dominated post-war American art, was fueled by the emotional intensity of German expressionism while reducing the iconoclastic abstractions...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 28, 2012 | Stage
In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded the second of her two Nobel Prizes, both connected to her discovery of radium. The radioactive element was initially hailed as a miracle substance, credited with curing cancer and other ailments, its deadly nature lurking invisibly...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 28, 2012 | Stage
In her vision of Private Lives, Emma Weinstein stacks nostalgia on top of nostalgia. Here, Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy of romantic fisticuffs looks fondly back on a bygone era looking fondly back on a bygone era. And the audience is swept into Coward’s...
by Chris Rohmann | May 5, 2012 | Stage
In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the heroine, Rosalind, disguises herself as a boy, calling herself Ganymede, who then pretends to be a girl in a courtship game she plays with the boy she loves. That double switcheroo was the inspiration for the name of...
