Stagestruck: Snarky Yule

Stagestruck: Snarky Yule

’T?is the season when theaters go into hibernation or pull out the Christmas shows. Two Western Mass. companies — Old Deerfield Productions and Berkshire Theatre Group — are staging A Christmas Carol this month, along with Hartford Stage’s...
A Festive Family

A Festive Family

Home for the Holidays is more than the Theater Project’s annual holiday-season variety show. It represents a homecoming for area performers who have become a kind of family on the Majestic Theater stage over the years. An updated evocation of those sweater-clad...
The World You Want

The World You Want

Kathy LeMay says that if you don't "feel horrible" about the injustices of the world and the grinding hardships so many people on the planet are compelled to endure, then you aren't paying attention. Feelings of "shame, guilt and anger"...

What do you think?

Green Street and BeyondAfter reading Robert Tobey's article "Ghosts of Green Street" (May 10, 2007), I remembered that 66 Green Street was also a "really nice place to live" for hundreds of lesbians who originally moved here from around the...

First Shot: Playing Keepaway

Reducing Springfield's crime rate has been on Dom Sarno's mind a lot these days; it's the cornerstone issue of his campaign to unseat Mayor Charlie Ryan this fall.Last week, it became personal for Sarno. Late one evening, while waiting to pick up her son...