by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
Martin McDonagh’s films—2008’s In Bruges and last year’s Seven Psychopaths—are black comedies in the mold of the Coen brothers. But his plays are darker affairs. Two trilogies set in the lonesome west of Ireland depict aimless lives and...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
Benedick and Beatrice, the prickly lovers in Much Ado About Nothing, are the most delightfully notorious in a long line of squabbling sweethearts who say they can’t bear each other but can’t bear to be without each other. Indeed, there’s a...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2013 | Stage
“I am on a journey to push the envelope,” says Sheryl Stoodley, founder and director of Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble. The envelope, for her, is the American stage, and the latest stop on the journey is Blind Dreamers, a piece of devised theater...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2013 | Stage
Jacob’s Pillow Dance concludes its season this weekend with a look back to its roots and a forward-looking performance representative of the genre’s future. Although its founder is long gone, the Martha Graham Dance Company carries on the legacy of that...
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...
