by Chris Rohmann | Feb 19, 2014 | Stage
“Women love to talk about their vaginas,” says one of the performers in Eve Ensler’s history-making theater piece about that provocative passage. First produced in 1996 to reactions that ranged from shocked outrage to “It’s about...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 26, 2014 | Stage
As every good storyteller knows, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” That famous opening line from Anna Karenina could well be the chapter heading in a writing handbook, since drama, whether literary or...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 4, 2014 | Stage
Northampton’s Academy of Music is currently developing an original play set in the 1940s, based on a steamy episode in the city’s history. Anticipating its debut next fall, the theater is setting the stage with an evening of even steamier entertainment...
by Ben Lambert | Mar 4, 2014 | Stage
Tracy Morgan has been a fixture on television and in film since the mid-1990s, but is best known as a star of NBC’s 30 Rock, winner of 16 Emmy awards over its seven-season run, and for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Morgan comes to Chicopee...
by by Pete Redington | Mar 12, 2014 | Stage
Last spring, the front-of-house manager at the Academy of Music discovered an old cardboard box containing a series of letters dating back to the early 1940s. The correspondence they contain tells the story of Frank Shaughnessy, then the manager at the Academy, who...
