by Chris Rohmann | Dec 17, 2012 | Stage
Tom McCabe has a problem with A Christmas Carol. He’s directed two stage versions of the holiday classic, and he says he’s always wondered about old Ebenezer Scrooge’s midnight conversion in the company of the ghostly Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come....
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 21, 2012 | Stage
The headline in the Gazette read “Nonprofits seek giving windfall on 12/12/12,” and the subject lines in my overflowing in-box said things like “Please support our work on 12/12/12—here’s how!” Last Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, was...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 28, 2012 | Stage
In the curtain speech before a performance of his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Smith College a few weeks ago, director Daniel Kramer said he considered us, the audience, “part of the cast”—an integral component of the production,...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 7, 2013 | Stage
Playwright Daniel R. Lillford says The Cabbage Patch “is not a big play.” Director Kristen van Ginhoven, too, calls it “a little play.” Little, that is, in the sense that it circles around a single mysterious event and a handful of interlocking...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 7, 2013 | Stage
One-person shows are a familiar landmark in the theatrical landscape. Last year I saw over a dozen of them. But there were also a dozen two-character plays on my itinerary. That’s another popular low-tech form, one that has quite a different feel and focus than...
