by Chris Rohmann | Nov 27, 2013 | Stage
WAM Theatre exists on two levels: to produce work that foregrounds women playwrights and performers, and to tangibly support, with a portion of ticket sales, organizations that work to better the lives of women and girls. Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 4, 2013 | Stage
In Stick Fly, conflicts over race, class and privilege simmer and then boil over. Lydia R. Diamond’s comedy-drama, set in the luxurious Vineyard summer home of a prosperous African-American family, stirs the domestic pot when the two sons show up with their new...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 4, 2013 | Stage
Recalling a time of revolutionary turmoil and religious frenzy in mid-17th-century England, Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire turns its beam on our own time as well. Written in 1976, as the ’60s impulse gave way to war-weary cynicism, the...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 17, 2013 | Stage
Julius Caesar is perhaps Shakespeare’s most masculine play. Only two women in the thing, each appearing in early cameos before giving way to the all-male worlds of the Roman Senate and the battlefield. So what happens when the play is turned on its macho head by...
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...
