by Chris Rohmann | Mar 9, 2012 | Stage
It’s not every day the composer of the Broadway musical you’re preparing for a college production shows up at your rehearsals. But that’s what happened for the cast of Urinetown the week before it opened at UMass. Mark Hollmann spent several days in...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 9, 2012 | Stage
“I used to be a mathematician. I went to graduate school at M.I.T. And, please, before you get too impressed by that, just notice what I’m doing with my life now.” That disarming line opens Gioia De Cari’s solo show Truth Values. An actor,...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 9, 2012 | Stage
Five College Dance in Concert features work by Monica Bill Barnes, Diane Coburn-Brunning, Cathy Nicoli, Thomas Vacanti and Wendy Woodson. March 1-3, 8-10 p.m. $10, Kirby Theater, Amherst College, Amherst, (413) 538-2848.
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 17, 2011 | Stage
Two current comedies focus on women’s interactions, one revolving around prickly family connections, the other an anarchic interface with a man’s world. In Pittsfield, a theater dedicated to supporting women’s causes presents a seriocomic dissection...
by Advocate Staff | Mar 16, 2012 | Stage
Bertold Brecht’s masterpiece Mother Courage, about a woman who pulls a canteen wagon on the battlefields of the Thirty Years’ War, hits the Academy this week under the direction of Advocate theater critic Chris Rohmann. Mia Wurgaft (pictured, center, with...
