Star-Crossed Lovers

Star-Crossed Lovers

Star-Crossed Lovers Federico García Lorca’s poetic tragedy Blood Wedding is positively operatic in its depiction of scalding passion, desperate romance and lethal jealousy. So it’s no surprise that it’s now become a folk opera at the hands of...

Singing the Past

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik are the words-and-music team responsible for Spring Awakening, that loud, rude, impassionated hit musical bursting with adolescent energy and angst. Their new work, Arms on Fire, is a quieter but equally heartfelt piece, not a full-scale...
The Funny Side of the Street

The Funny Side of the Street

Go to the Congregational Church in Greenfield on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month and you’ll find Greenfield Improv Group, or GIG, where you’re both audience and improviser. “I didn’t intend that,” says Amy Swisher, referring...
The Neverending Story

The Neverending Story

Double Edge Theatre is eager to dispel impressions that this summer’s traveling spectacle, Shahrazad, is a remount of 2009’s Arabian Nights. Sure, both are drawn from that classic compendium of tales recounted by an Arabian princess to entertain a king and...
10 Years of Funny

10 Years of Funny

The Ha-Has comedy group was created by accident in 2003 when Pam Victor, then an improv newbie, offered to do a show at her local library—and then had to form a group to perform it. The group’s original name, The Ha-Ha Sisterhood, was also...