by Chris Rohmann | Mar 19, 2014 | Stage
It’s not surprising that Private Lives is one of Noël Coward’s two most-performed plays, nor that A Song at Twilight isn’t the other one. The former is an exquisite marital farce—the master of acerbic wit at the height of his...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 2, 2014 | Stage
When straight, responsible Agnes comes across the gaming module left behind by her dead alpha-nerd sister, she’s thrust into a world that includes not only dungeons and dragons, but homicidal fairies, raunchy ogres and bloodthirsty cheerleaders, as the fantasy...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 2, 2014 | Stage
Two shows at Springfield’s Symphony Hall this weekend represent classic points on the entertainment spectrum: the Broadway musical and the variety show. Todd Oliver & Friends combines a number of variety-act staples. Oliver is a ventriloquist with a rock...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 9, 2014 | Stage
In fair Verona, where Shakespeare lays his scene, Romeo and Juliet kiss on a balcony while the young bloods of their feuding families fight it out in the street. In New York, four centuries and countless adaptations later, their tragic tale is being reenacted on...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 9, 2014 | Stage
When Andrea Chinedu Nwoke thinks of Fannie Lou Hamer, her thoughts go back to her grandmother. “The things Fannie went through, the hurdles she faced, are much the same as my grandmother did,” says Nwoke, whose African-American forebears lived in a time of...
