by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2013 | Stage
Daffy Duck is hugging a six-year-old who’s half his height. The flaky fowl has jumped off the screen and onto the midway at Six Flags New England theme park, where he cavorts daily with Bugs, Tweety Pie, Foghorn, Marvin the Martian and other celluloid pals from...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 3, 2013 | Stage
Wilder/Williams is a coupling of two lesser known one-act plays by American masters. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, by Thornton Wilder, is an early exploration of the deceptively mundane themes epitomized in Our Town. Tennessee Williams’ Talk to Me...
by Advocate Staff | Sep 4, 2013 | Stage
“Scott” is F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Hem” is Ernest Hemingway. The Garden of Allah is a star-infested apartment building in Hollywood where Fitzgerald holed up for a spell in the 1930s and where, in Mark St. Germain’s new play, Scott and Hem...
by Advocate Staff | Sep 24, 2013 | Stage
Since its inception five years ago, First Generation Ensemble, the youth-focused arm of Springfield’s social justice-inspired theater company Performance Project, has worked with area teens to create, develop and present performances in which the young adults...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 24, 2013 | Stage
For some time now, I’ve been noticing that in their advertising, theaters tend to emphasize—often overemphasize—the comedic or otherwise convivial aspects of their shows, even when they’re patently not comedies. While the descriptives...
