by Chris Rohmann | May 19, 2012 | Stage
Time was when community theater was a cozy middle-of-the-road affair that seldom strayed from the comfortably familiar. While many amateur troupes now edge into the fast lane with more challenging dramas, the musicals that require community theaters’ greatest...
by Chris Rohmann | May 26, 2012 | Stage
Two plays in the area this month, both set in the 1930s, look at the Depression era through opposite ends of the telescope. The American Clock, by Arthur Miller, is a large-canvas, 50-character epic about people caught in the shock wave of the stock market crash. The...
by Chris Rohmann | May 31, 2012 | Stage
With the issue of teen bullying now (belatedly) a national subject of concern, it wasn’t quite a surprise to find two plays performed in the area last week dealing with the topic. While The Strength of Stones, at Smith College, and As It Appears, at Easthampton...
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...
