by Chris Rohmann | Nov 12, 2014 | Stage
The plots that W.S. Gilbert contrived for the comic operas he wrote with Arthur Sullivan often turned on what he called “topsy-turvy” situations, where normal reality is upended and absurdity reigns. The Yeomen of the Guard is the duo’s most striking...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 19, 2014 | Stage
You don’t often catch the Theater Project dabbling in fantasy. Anthropomorphic animals are a distinct rarity onstage at the troupe’s Majestic Theater. But Harvey, the six-and-a-half-foot rabbit currently residing there, is no Disneyfied fuzzy bunny....
by Pete Redington | Nov 29, 2014 | Stage
As a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Hodgman plays the Deranged Millionaire and the Resident Expert, the latter of which grew as an extension of his first book, The Areas of My Expertise. On Bored To Death he plays Louis Greene, the nemesis to...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 3, 2014 | Stage
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox, is now a museum that preserves memories of her Gilded Age life and times. When Shakespeare & Company shared the premises with the Wharton Restoration, the troupe staged original dramatic adaptations of her...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 10, 2014 | Stage
John Waters is a wicked Santa. Each year he pops up around America with a big familiar wink and an avuncular grin. But he wears a thin pencil mustache instead of a big white beard, and his bag of gifts is packed full of demented stories and bizarre anecdotes. The...