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...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 12, 2012 | Stage
With most regular ticket prices at the major Berkshire summer theaters falling in the $50-$60 range and even smaller theaters’ tickets pegged at several times the cost of a movie, the fact that these prices are minuscule by Broadway standards doesn’t cut...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 19, 2012 | Stage
The last production I saw of The Importance of Being Ernest was spoiled by the actors struggling to get their American tongues around Oscar Wilde’s so veddy English epigrams and their bodies into appropriately Victorian attitudes. For theaters on this side of...
