Messages from beyond?: Local psychics ‘channeling the truth’ and spirits of the dead
By ELISE LINSCOTT For the Advocate ‘The first thing I felt was cancer … she said ‘I was tired and there was no way back,’ which is pretty common for cancer,” South Hadley-based psychic medium and fiction writer Lisa Lanno said to a room of about 50 people one recent...
Stagestruck: Black Plays Matter
2020’s Summer of Rage following the murder of George Floyd gave rise to much soul-searching in many areas of American society, including the theater community. Some of the fruits were on view this summer.
Stagestruck: Don’t Pass Over This One
In a season when every major theater in the region has mounted shows reflecting on today’s racial tensions and evils, I found “Pass Over,” at Chester Theatre Company, the most compelling and affecting. If you see only one play this summer, see this one.
Stagestruck: The Land on Which We Dance
It’s become standard practice in the region’s theaters to offer a land acknowledgement before every performance. As Jacob’s Pillow’s artistic director Pamela Tatge says every night, “The land on which we dance is the ancestral homeland” of the Native peoples whose...
Stagestruck: Brothers in Blood
Two plays now running in our region center on pairs of Black brothers, one bonded by blood, the other by circumstance. Both offer reflections of Black lives not often seen around here, presented by theaters determined to make a difference, and both are worth a visit.
Stagestruck: Turning in the Keys
After a boundary-busting 30-year run, the Ko Festival of Performance is coming to a close with two final shows: a meditation on legacies and “an environmental, cultural and spiritual parable of domination and resilience.”
Stagestruck: Tropical Tolstoy
The title character in “Anna in the Tropics,” now playing at Barrington Stage Company, isn’t a person, but a book. And she plays a central role, thematically, narratively, even physically. The book is “Anna Karenina,” Leo Tolstoy’s winter’s tale of love – illicit, unrequited, doomed. The setting, though, in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer-winning play, is a Little Havana in 1920s Florida.
Stagestruck: Wars, Merry and Cold
Just about the only things Shakespeare & Company’s two outdoor productions have in common are fresh air and trees. In the Bard’s sunny “Much Ado About Nothing,” Beatrice and Benedick engage in a “merry war” of wits, while in Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods,” two diplomats strive to negotiate an arms-control treaty in the shadow of nuclear war.
Stagestruck: Pillow in Motion
The evening unwraps slowly in a flowing sequence of encounters – tentative, teasing, edgy and sexy – as the dancers circle and entwine. They highlight “the beauty in our [Black] culture, the way we love and love on each other.”
Stagestruck: Small Disasters
Anna Ouyang Moench’s “Birds of North America,” at Chester Theatre Company, is the kind of piece in which Chester specializes and excels – small, subtle dramas that pull you in and make you think. It’s about climate change, but doesn’t hammer the theme. It’s more metaphor than polemic, more quiet anguish than loud confrontation.
Monte Belmonte Wines: The wine world is your oyster
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I, with sword, will open. — William Shakespeare from The Merry Wives of Windsor Scott Soares’s world is an oyster. Well, his world when he is not being appointed by Presidents Obama and Biden to be USDA Rural...
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Getting Away From The ‘Sea of White Dudes’: Dwellings Festival showcases talented femmes, people of color, and queer people
The Northampton Center for the Arts became a microcosm of art, poetry, and music for 10 hours on Saturday at the first Dwellings Arts Festival.
V-Spot: A Question From The Mono-Poly Guy
“Someone suggested I might be a “switch,” able to be happy in either a mono- or poly-type relationship with the right partner(s). To me, this sounds about as realistic as a unicorn, but is it possible? Am I missing or not seeing something?”
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Stagestruck: Badass Women
Gunderson calls her play “feminist and intersectional … a universal story told in the hearts and bodies of women.”
