by Chris Rohmann | Aug 9, 2012 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 16, 2012 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 23, 2012 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 30, 2012 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 6, 2012 | Stage
I’ve been away. On vacation. This is news only because it’s the first time I’ve left Western Mass. during the summer theater season since, let’s see, oh, yes, ever. I went to the Cape and did nothing but loll and laze, sun and swim. And, okay,...
