by Chris Rohmann | Mar 2, 2012 | Stage
I’m sure Irish families are no more dysfunctional than others, but a pair of domestic tragedies that opened locally last weekend, in coincidental tandem, might send the message that they are. Both Eugene O’Neill’s towering classic Long Day’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 2, 2012 | Stage
One man traced an epic wandering journey from eastern Europe to northern Britain. Another occupied a quiet corner of this country till events catapulted him into the headlines. Next week, campus theater departments bring both men’s adventures to Valley...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 15, 2011 | Stage
What do David Sedaris, Hedda Gabler and Mikhail Bulgakov have in common? Not a lot, I’ll admit. But in this week’s docket of performances I found a common thread in the situations faced by Sedaris, the sardonic diarist of life as a Macy’s elf; Hedda,...
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...
