by Chris Rohmann | Aug 6, 2014 | Stage
Double Edge Theatre’s summertime series of family-friendly “traveling spectacles” showcase the company’s interdisciplinary aesthetic—an amalgam of movement theater, world music and circus skills—to produce playful, athletic and...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 6, 2014 | Stage
“Lizzie Borden took an axe…” goes the rhyme, and it’s almost like a grisly nursery tale. Though Lizzie was acquitted of killing her father and stepmother in 1892, she has passed into the popular imagination as a crazed murderess. Jack...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 21, 2014 | Stage
Two shows playing this weekend share a thematic thread: the elusive nature of truth and its potential for violent upheavals in families and friendships. A Hatful of Rain, in Stockbridge, is a volcanic 1950s drama set in the aftermath of war; Collected Stories, in...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 21, 2014 | Stage
“Guess what this is that I’m drawing,” says six-year-old Velda. “It’s Jesus.” “Man Enters Amish Schoolhouse and Opens Fire,” says the CNN headline. “Some woman came up to me in the grocery and said, ‘If you...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 21, 2014 | Stage
The most common question I hear grownups asking kids after a children’s theater performance is, “What part did you like best?” Sometimes the answer is “All of it,” sometimes it’s a noncommittal shrug, but very often there are one or...
