by Chris Rohmann | Mar 30, 2012 | Stage
Talk about metatheater. Middletown is so conscious of its own existence that the script even includes an intermission, with audience members discussing the show. Playwright Will Eno, who’s been described as “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 30, 2012 | Stage
The way things usually work is this: Someone writes a play, which goes through several drafts, readings and workshops. Then a director holds auditions to find the right cast, who rehearse it for weeks before finally presenting it to the world on opening night. The...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 14, 2012 | Stage
“William Shakespeare—a man from a hick town with a high school education.” With that disarming characterization, Shakespeare & Company begins to demystify The Greatest Poet of All Time. The show’s title, Shakespeare and the Language That...
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...
