by Chris Rohmann | Jun 18, 2013 | Stage
Two shows opening this week at Barrington Stage Company illustrate the poles theater can occupy: On the Town, a big, kick-up-your-heels musical originally created to raise wartime spirits in the 1940s, and Muckrakers, a terse, tense two-character drama sprung from...
by Advocate Staff | Jun 26, 2013 | Stage
Star-Crossed Lovers Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy Blood Wedding is positively operatic in its depiction of scalding passion, desperate romance and lethal jealousy. So it’s no surprise that it’s now become a folk opera at the hands of...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 2, 2013 | Stage
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik are the words-and-music team responsible for Spring Awakening, that loud, rude, impassionated hit musical bursting with adolescent energy and angst. Their new work, Arms on Fire, is a quieter but equally heartfelt piece, not a full-scale...
by Julia Mines | Jul 9, 2013 | Stage
Go to the Congregational Church in Greenfield on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month and you’ll find Greenfield Improv Group, or GIG, where you’re both audience and improviser. “I didn’t intend that,” says Amy Swisher, referring...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 23, 2013 | Stage
Double Edge Theatre is eager to dispel impressions that this summer’s traveling spectacle, Shahrazad, is a remount of 2009’s Arabian Nights. Sure, both are drawn from that classic compendium of tales recounted by an Arabian princess to entertain a king and...
