by Chris Rohmann | Aug 27, 2014 | Stage
This summer’s keynote Shakespeare is A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was the company’s very first production, in 1978, when Simotes himself played Puck. It’s a big, brash staging with an audacious concept and a large cast. But most of the...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 3, 2014 | Stage
In September 1941, as Nazi Germany consolidated its hold on most of Europe, two of the century’s indispensable physicists met in Copenhagen, Denmark. Former colleagues, both of them key figures in the development of quantum theory, Niels Bohr and Werner...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 10, 2014 | Stage
Sheng Dong is a Taiwan-based troupe whose name means “A Moving Sound”—a fitting moniker for a company that not only blends music and movement, but moves, so to speak, between the worlds of Chinese and other Asian traditions and modern Western forms....
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 10, 2014 | Stage
In another life, another world, I was a folkie—a singer/songwriter plying the folk clubs in the wake of the folk revival and protest-song movement, one of Woody Guthrie’s multitude of musical progeny. Woody’s work, his example and his...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 17, 2014 | Stage
It’s a fairy tale (for grownups only) about a traveling circus (down on its luck), “weaving poetry, obscenity, magic and love” into a contemporary take on an ancient story, inspired by the poet Rumi’s injunction to “unfold your own...
