by Chris Rohmann | May 5, 2012 | Stage
“My problem with Wendy Wasserstein is that she only writes about the problems of the Upper West Side. Talk about entitlement. ‘Do I work or do I get married?’ What a dilemma!” That line is spoken in a play about a group of Mount Holyoke College...
by Chris Rohmann | May 12, 2012 | Stage
A dramatic reading from two Greek tragedies and an art gallery talk inspired by an exhibit about Negro League baseball—you’d think these two events have little or nothing to do with each other, but according to the head of the organization sponsoring both...
by Chris Rohmann | May 19, 2012 | Stage
Time was when community theater was a cozy middle-of-the-road affair that seldom strayed from the comfortably familiar. While many amateur troupes now edge into the fast lane with more challenging dramas, the musicals that require community theaters’ greatest...
by Chris Rohmann | May 26, 2012 | Stage
Two plays in the area this month, both set in the 1930s, look at the Depression era through opposite ends of the telescope. The American Clock, by Arthur Miller, is a large-canvas, 50-character epic about people caught in the shock wave of the stock market crash. The...
by Chris Rohmann | May 31, 2012 | Stage
With the issue of teen bullying now (belatedly) a national subject of concern, it wasn’t quite a surprise to find two plays performed in the area last week dealing with the topic. While The Strength of Stones, at Smith College, and As It Appears, at Easthampton...
