StageStruck: The Decimal System

StageStruck: The Decimal System

These days, Kristen van Ginhoven is one busy theater artist. “It’s feast or famine in our field, isn’t it?” she observed to me recently. Right now, the energetic co-founder of WAM Theater is involved in no less than three of the events...

La danse éclectique

If you don’t already know Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, the company’s name is sufficient clue to its unique approach to dance: eclectic and athletic, infusing a multitude of styles and cultures and drawing from an international cadre of...
Circus in Vermont: Big Top Skills

Circus in Vermont: Big Top Skills

The New England Center for Circus Arts teaches hard-to-come-by skills, things like flying via trapeze. This weekend, the Center offers a major display of those skills as students, instructors and guests present trapeze, aerial silk, partner balancing, juggling, and...
StageStruck: Theater Ecology

StageStruck: Theater Ecology

So I’m at A.P.E. Gallery on Northampton’s Main Street a week or so ago, and I run into Sabrina Hamilton. She’s artistic director of Ko Theater Works, a 22-year-old Valley-based company that champions alternative theater. We’re both here to see...
StageStruck: Lies Like Truth

StageStruck: Lies Like Truth

It’s entirely apt that Shakespeare & Company has mounted The Liar as its late-winter entertainment. For one thing, David Ives’ up-to-the-minute adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th-century farce was commissioned a couple of years ago by another...