Stage: Plucky Princess

Stage: Plucky Princess

She’s not a real princess, but Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale of a little rich girl, thrust into poverty and servitude when her father suddenly dies broke, has all the ingredients of a Cinderella story. Sara Crewe: A Little Princess is the...
StageStruck: Being ?Me?

StageStruck: Being ?Me?

D’Lo is a compound of contradictions. And that’s exactly the point—the point of his one-person show Ramble-Ations, and of D’Lo himself. Even the male pronoun is a contested term in the diverse identity of this self-described “queer Tamil...
StageStruck: Our Town in Our Town

StageStruck: Our Town in Our Town

I’m not an actor. I’m much more comfortable in the director’s chair and the critic’s aisle seat than in the spotlight. When someone asks, “Do you also act?” my answer is, “Not if I can help it.” But every once in a while...
Stage: Bi-Polar

Stage: Bi-Polar

This holiday season the Monson-based Greene Room Productions offers not one but two performances of Arctic intrigue. The first is an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s classic children’s book The Polar Express, in which a doubting boy winds up at...
Seasonally Subversive

Seasonally Subversive

Working at Macy’s over Christmas made David Sedaris a household name—in NPR households, anyway. The gruesomely funny tale of his temp job as an elf in SantaLand, first broadcast in 1992, has become a seasonal staple on public radio stations. The SantaLand...