by Chris Rohmann | Dec 17, 2013 | Stage
Total verrückt is the German equivalent of “stark raving mad.” It was the ironic title of a musical revue performed, ironically and defiantly, in a Nazi concentration camp. Westerbork was a Dutch transit camp where Jews were held pending transport to...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 31, 2013 | Stage
I t’s a Wonderful Life is as hardy a staple of Christmastime entertainment as A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. And recently the 1946 film has joined those two theatrical chestnuts on stage. Joe Landry’s adaptation of the Frank Capra classic is...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 21, 2014 | Stage
I was in Paris last month and dropped in at the Comédie-Française, that venerable heir to Molière and Feydeau. They weren’t playing Moliëre, though, or even a comedy, but that most profound and vexing of Shakespearean dramas. La...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 5, 2014 | Stage
I am one lucky critic. I like most of what I see. A sizeable percentage of the shows I attend generously repay this theatergoer’s time and attention. I count myself especially fortunate to be theatergoing in the Valley, where so many small theaters and...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 12, 2014 | Stage
You would think that a play performed from a written script and an improvisation launched from a random idea would be, almost by definition, antithetical. If you did, Pam Victor wouldn’t agree. Victor, a member of the Ha-Ha’s, the Valley’s primo...
