by Pete Redington | Oct 22, 2013 | Stage
Bill Maher tends to say things a bit bluntly. A few weeks ago, on his weekly HBO show Real Time, he suggested that California would lead the way to a modern, liberal American society because, with 40 million residents, the Golden State is by itself the eighth largest...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 22, 2013 | Stage
A world-premiere musical about what dolls get up to when no one’s looking. A fragmentary play about a fragmenting mind. A French farce about an insatiable liar. And a performance installation about fat. That diverse menu of productions is under the lights this...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 22, 2013 | Stage
The third annual Double Take Fringe Festival romps through a variety of underused spaces and architectural curiosities this weekend in downtown Greenfield. The eight mini-productions range from a Chekhov farce to a Tennessee Williams parody, from improvisational...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 30, 2013 | Stage
When I was living in London in the ’70s, a new theater was rising on the South Bank— a colossal cement pile of a building, spawn of the same architectural school of thought as the UMass Fine Arts Center, and just as ugly. (It was famously compared by...
by Ben Lambert | Oct 30, 2013 | Stage
The societal standards we often consider iron-clad—what is familiar, normal and what is “other”—are ultimately rather fluid, based only on tradition and the strength of our collective belief. Power Animal Systems, a multimedia performance...
