by Chris Rohmann | Oct 1, 2013 | Stage
The most thrilling non-musical moment in the stage version of Les Misérables is a trick of the set. As the young revolutionaries prepare their uprising against poverty and injustice, the buildings of Paris collapse before our eyes to become the rebels’...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 8, 2013 | Stage
Double Edge Theatre may call their Ashfield farmstead home, but they are a world-class, and world-traveling, company. Their latest production—that is, not counting their annual farm-spanning summer spectacle—was premiered at Washington, D.C.’s Arena...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 8, 2013 | Stage
It’s a coincidence, but not a surprise, that both productions of Othello I’ve seen recently are set on military bases in today’s Middle East. The garrison in Shakespeare’s tragedy isn’t that far from an outpost in Kandahar. The same rules...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 15, 2013 | Stage
At the end of Lorraine Hansberry’s precedent-shattering play A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family are preparing to move out of their cramped apartment in an all-black Chicago neighborhood into a house “with a garden” in an all-white suburb. This...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 22, 2013 | Stage
In 1913, composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky electrified the ballet world with The Rite of Spring, a brash, iconoclastic piece that broke all the prevailing rules, scandalized Parisian ears and set the rest of the 20th century in motion. In...
