Overture and Finale

Overture and Finale

Three summers ago, Kali Quinn brought her one-woman—no, three-woman—show, Overture to a Thursday Morning, to the Ko Festival of Performance in Amherst. After performing it in New York and coast to coast, this weekend she brings an expanded, two-part...
The Distaff Side, part 2

The Distaff Side, part 2

Two weeks ago in this space, I bemoaned the under-representation of women playwrights and directors on so many of the region’s stages. I said that out of 35 full productions at the area’s six professional legit theaters this past summer, six were written...
A Theater of Moxie and Renown

A Theater of Moxie and Renown

shouts Sheila Siragusa, striding onto the stage from the empty auditorium. “Every molecule of you says, ‘I cannot wait to get out of this room and back to the theater.’” She’s speaking to Susan Daniels, and her comment carries a certain...
Stagestruck: An Unforgettable Separation

Stagestruck: An Unforgettable Separation

“My parents’ love for each other was forged, in part, by their separation during the Korean War,” writes Susan Thompson in her playwright’s note to Unforgettable: Letters from Korea. “So were essential elements of who they became. During...
Stagestruck: A Curious Constellation

Stagestruck: A Curious Constellation

I don’t know if it’s the fact that this year is his 450th birthday, or if some “enforced obedience of planetary influence,” as one of his villains says, caused this constellation, but this weekend and next, four of the Five Colleges are staging...