by Chris Rohmann | Sep 13, 2012 | Stage
It’s a playwriting axiom that one of the mainsprings of drama is the notion of concealing and revealing: guilty secrets, bloody ambitions, baffling mysteries, furtive passions. All four of the plays I saw in the last full week of the region’s summer...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 20, 2012 | Stage
“Doing a lot of adult work and with the heavy themes that are sometimes in that work, it’s nice to just relax into a show. We don’t always need to be thinking about something.” That’s Ines Zeller Bass, co-director of Sandglass Theater....
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 20, 2012 | Stage
Of the multiple performers I admired this past summer, four stick in my mind because of their multiplicity. Three of them were in multiple productions, and one brought a contrary pair of personalities together in a single one-man show. Coincidentally, perhaps, all...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 27, 2012 | Stage
Three years ago, Britain’s National Theatre launched an ambitious experiment: high-definition satellite broadcasts of live performances beamed from its home on London’s South Bank to movie screens around the world. One of these was the Amherst Cinema, and...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 4, 2012 | Stage
My review of the Theater Project’s first production of Blood Brothers, back in 1998, has become part of the company’s backstage lore. I didn’t much like the piece, but acknowledged that the rest of the audience absolutely loved it. Since then,...
