by Chris Rohmann | Aug 6, 2013 | Stage
Stranger-than-fiction category: Robert Eads was a self-described “hillbilly and proud of it,” living in “Bubba-land” among good ol’ boys who never guessed he was transgendered. Kate Davis’ 2001 film documented his life and the...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
Martin McDonagh’s films—2008’s In Bruges and last year’s Seven Psychopaths—are black comedies in the mold of the Coen brothers. But his plays are darker affairs. Two trilogies set in the lonesome west of Ireland depict aimless lives and...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
Benedick and Beatrice, the prickly lovers in Much Ado About Nothing, are the most delightfully notorious in a long line of squabbling sweethearts who say they can’t bear each other but can’t bear to be without each other. Indeed, there’s a...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
“I am on a journey to push the envelope,” says Sheryl Stoodley, founder and director of Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble. The envelope, for her, is the American stage, and the latest stop on the journey is Blind Dreamers, a piece of devised theater...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2013 | Stage
Jacob’s Pillow Dance concludes its season this weekend with a look back to its roots and a forward-looking performance representative of the genre’s future. Although its founder is long gone, the Martha Graham Dance Company carries on the legacy of that...
