StageStruck: Form and Substance

StageStruck: Form and Substance

It’s called The Meta/Pina Project: Blind Dreamers. “Pina” for the visionary German choreographer Pina Bausch, whose tanztheater (dance-theater) was fashioned from natural movement, spoken phrases and everyday interactions. “Meta” because...
StageStruck: King and Goddess

StageStruck: King and Goddess

These days there’s more “company” than Shakespeare at Shakespeare & Company. The season’s eight-play roster of plays includes only two by the troupe’s eponym. Those, however, are twin pillars of the canon: the towering tragedy King...
Playing Catch-Up

Playing Catch-Up

This is a little embarrassing. I usually see just about everything on our region’s summer theater circuit, but this year I got a late start, missed some of the early shows and am still catching up. So far, I’ve managed to at least sample the seasonal fare...

Stagestruck: Whaddalineup!!!

Three of the four plays I saw last weekend were world premieres, and one was the premiere of a brand-new translation of a classic. In three of them, the safe, comfortable world of a well-to-do woman is upended by an unexpected turn of events, and in the fourth, the...
StageStruck: 50 Feet Tall

StageStruck: 50 Feet Tall

It’s not as incongruous as you may think that Shakespeare & Company, rooted in the works of that Renaissance genius, is premiering a play about the 20th-century jazzman Louis Armstrong. For one thing, Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opens next week, joins...