by Chris Rohmann | Apr 28, 2012 | Stage
In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded the second of her two Nobel Prizes, both connected to her discovery of radium. The radioactive element was initially hailed as a miracle substance, credited with curing cancer and other ailments, its deadly nature lurking invisibly...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 28, 2012 | Stage
In her vision of Private Lives, Emma Weinstein stacks nostalgia on top of nostalgia. Here, Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy of romantic fisticuffs looks fondly back on a bygone era looking fondly back on a bygone era. And the audience is swept into Coward’s...
by Chris Rohmann | May 5, 2012 | Stage
In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the heroine, Rosalind, disguises herself as a boy, calling herself Ganymede, who then pretends to be a girl in a courtship game she plays with the boy she loves. That double switcheroo was the inspiration for the name of...
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...
