by Chris Rohmann | Jun 7, 2012 | Stage
I dipped into The American Clock a couple of weeks ago for a column on plays set in the Thirties. Intrigued by the play’s theme and scope, I’ve been digging a little deeper into it. It’s a show I’d previously only heard of, written by one of...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 14, 2012 | Stage
The summer theater season has just begun, and I’ve already seen what I hope will be the most exasperating play of the year. Lungs is the inaugural production in the newly renamed Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Art Center—Barrington Stage Company’s...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 21, 2012 | Stage
“The thing about the First Folio,” says Sheila Siragusa, “is the fact that the text is such a big fucking mess.” But that’s precisely what she loves about it. The first compilation of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1623,...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 28, 2012 | Stage
Circle Mirror Transformation is the name of a theater game in which a sound and motion begun by one participant is mirrored by the whole group, then transformed by someone else into another movement, and so on around the circle. It’s also the title of the play...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 5, 2012 | Stage
Of all the major theaters in the Berkshires, Shakespeare & Company feels the most like a family. Many of the staff and performers live and work there year-round and many of the staff are also performers. Over the years, the company has developed a core ensemble...
