by Chris Rohmann | Jul 9, 2014 | Stage
The country’s oldest dance festival is still acting like a youngster. This summer’s lineup of over 350 performances and other events at Jacob’s Pillow includes hip-hop, innovative tap, interdisciplinary experiments and other boundary-breaking...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 16, 2014 | Stage
Both of Chester Theatre Company’s first two summer productions pose a geographic puzzle. The first one, Madagascar, takes place mostly in Rome. The second, Annapurna, which opens this week, is set within sight of a mountain peak, but in Colorado, not Nepal....
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 23, 2014 | Stage
“The coffee is usually on by 9:30, and the Clybourne Park rehearsal starts at 10,” explained Sam Rush when I asked him what time I should arrive. “But that’s the morning the kids’ show opens, so they’ll be doing last-minute things...
by James Heflin | Jul 23, 2014 | Stage
When Rythea Lee steps onto a stage, her remarkable calm is striking, even inviting. She looks right at the audience, and seems untroubled by a flock of expectant faces. She often performs in crowded living rooms, where she can look audience members in the eye, up...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 23, 2014 | Stage
I generally don’t do best-of lists, but halfway through the summer season I can point to one show that, in this critic’s book, is the pick of the lot so far. Shakespeare’s Will, at Shakespeare & Company, is a fanciful reconsideration of the Swan...
