by Chris Rohmann | May 29, 2013 | Stage
When I first met Vincent Dowling in 1990, the year he founded the Miniature Theatre of Chester, he regaled me with tales of his early life as an itinerant actor, doing “fit-ups”—one-night stands on makeshift stages—in small towns all over his...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 4, 2013 | Stage
Sex is in the air on two Hartford stages. On one, sexual longing and confusion, Shakespeare style; on the other, the queen of sex talk. That would be Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist known for her witty, unabashed approach to bedroom issues....
by James Heflin | Jun 11, 2013 | Stage
This weekend, southern Vermont becomes a hotbed of exciting experimental theater from Vermont Performance Lab and Sandglass Theater. Not What Happened (pictured) is a new piece from three-time Obie award-winning writer/director/performer Ain Gordon. The piece includes...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 11, 2013 | Stage
Spring isn’t officially over and already the summer theater season is underway. Two shows are up and running in the Berkshires, with dozens more waiting impatiently in the wings. I count over 50 productions lined up in Western Mass. companies’ regular...
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...
