Stagestruck
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 18, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
The summer season has been slowly gaining momentum, and this week it explodes, with 10 shows in the Valley and Berkshires opening or already up and running. Among these are a pair of classic musicals, two uncommon love stories set in Ireland, a satirical look at...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 11, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Hamlet, we recall, reminded the players visiting Elsinore that the theater’s job is to reflect “the very age and body of the time.” Times being what they are, it’s no surprise that quite a number of shows this summer do just that. The schedule in the Valley and...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 4, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
In a season studded with world premieres (five at Williamstown Theatre Festival alone and three at Barrington Stage Company, for example), I’m equally struck by some of the revivals coming up in the Valley and Berkshires this summer. I don’t mean chestnuts from the...
by Chris Rohmann | May 30, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
I missed The Flamingo Kid when the Garry Marshall movie came out in 1984, but I recently caught up with it. It’s a coming-of-age story that takes place in the summer of 1963, the era of Marshall’s TV series Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley. Although it was...
by Chris Rohmann | May 28, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
I’m looking at my summer theater calendar and counting over 60 productions due up over the next three lively months in the Valley and beyond. Some dozen world premieres, along with even more regional premieres, stand alongside classics from Ibsen to Albee, not to...
by Chris Rohmann | May 26, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two plays now on Broadway for limited runs, a world classic and a world premiere, revolve around fractured families whose dynastic dreams turn sour. One involves the ambitious daughters of an English king, the other the ambitious wife of a former U.S. president....
by Chris Rohmann | May 21, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
There’s usually a bit of a lull between the end of one theater season and the start of the next – the spring pause before the summer rush. But the pause keeps getting briefer and the seasons are starting to overlap. Take this week, when three Berkshire theaters open...
by Chris Rohmann | May 6, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two revisioned classics, a brand-new political drama, and some audience favorites are on tap in the Amherst Cinema’s series of broadcasts from the London stage via National Theatre Live. First up, this Saturday and again on the 14th, is Shakespeare’s most lyrical...
by Chris Rohmann | May 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
When the twin towers crumpled on September 11, 2001, American airspace was closed for fear of further attacks and all U.S.-bound flights were diverted to other airports. One of these was Gander International, i n Newfoundland, where 38 airliners landed, carrying...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 29, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Jules Verne’s 1873 novel/travelogue, Around the World in 80 Days, is best remembered these days from its movie versions, including Disney’s in 2004 and the Oscar-winning three-hour blockbuster from 1956, both of them teeming with exotic multitudes and spectacular...
