by Advocate Staff | Mar 25, 2013 | Stage
You wouldn’t think of Scott Goldman, principal of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, or Chris Rohmann, theater director and critic (full disclosure: he writes the Advocate’s Stage Struck column), as the types to ignite a firestorm. But...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2013 | Stage
The Rainbow Players don’t exactly reject terms like “tolerance,” “acceptance” and “inclusion,” they simply transcend them. This 13-year-old troupe of youth and adults with physical, developmental and learning disabilities uses...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2013 | Stage
“Willliam Shakespeare—a man from a hick town with a high school education.” With that disarming characterization, Shakespeare & Company demystifies the often daunting Bard of Avon. Shakespeare and the Language That Shaped a World, a 45-minute...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2013 | Stage
The Grey Goo Theory imagines the world ending, not in fire or ice, but in a global cancer of self-replicating nanotechnology that ultimately devours the biosphere. The idea has morphed into an omnibus term deploring the insidious penetration of digital technology into...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2013 | Stage
“The first rule is this: you can’t say ‘I liked it’ or ‘I didn’t like it.’ This isn’t useful information—useful to you, but not to anybody else. “And you can’t say ‘I disagree’ with what...
