by Chris Rohmann | Oct 15, 2014 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 22, 2014 | Stage
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...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 5, 2014 | Stage
“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...
by Chris Rohmann | Nov 5, 2014 | Stage
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...
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...
