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...
