by Chris Rohmann | Apr 15, 2013 | Stage
In the end, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told was performed without incident—inside the Academy of Music, at least. Outside the building, another story was taking place. All three performances last month attracted demonstrators on both...
by Chris Rohmann | May 3, 2013 | Stage
Four male characters dominate this week’s Valley theater. Not too surprising, considering women’s chronic underrepresentation in dramatis personae from the Greeks to the present, but a bit so, since two of the productions are at all-women’s colleges....
by Chris Rohmann | May 7, 2013 | Stage
“I feel like this play is an incredible amalgamation and a sort of a full circle of Valley talent,” says Julie Waggoner, who is half the cast of a new six-character play. She stars with Jeannine Haas in Red State of Marriage, written specifically for them...
by Chris Rohmann | May 14, 2013 | Stage
Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun took the reader on a harrowing, heartbreaking trip into the head of Joe Bonham, a World War I soldier who’s lost not only his limbs but his sight, hearing and speech—a lump of “living...
by James Heflin | May 21, 2013 | Stage
Contemporary dance, often considered among the most rarefied of art forms, may not seem like something you’d find in a southern Vermont grange hall. Thanks to Vermont Performance Lab, however, rural southern Vermont has become an increasingly attractive place...