by Chris Rohmann | Apr 10, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two plays coming to area campuses this week and next have starkly different, but equally pessimistic takes on life and death. Death of a Salesman, at Springfield College, finds tragedy in an ordinary life, while The Tattooed Man Tells All, at Smith College, draws...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 9, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
There’s a new theater company in the Valley, with a kick-ass name and no less a purpose than helping to “undo established hierarchical structures and their attendant damage.” It’s called Strident Theatre, and its vociferous founder is actor/director/playwright Susanna...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 5, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
My brother is the world’s biggest P.G. Wodehouse fan. Well, maybe not the biggest — he’s got legions of competitors for that title — but big enough to have come up from his home in New Jersey to accompany me to the American premiere of a new Wodehouse-derived play....
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 4, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
In 1994, Stacy Klein moved her adventurous company, Double Edge Theatre, from Boston to a former dairy farm in rural Ashfield, and started milking the Muse. A quarter-century later, the 100-acre spread is home to a resident company of artists and a hub of visceral,...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two of the Five Colleges’ season-ending productions, both by award-winning women playwrights, hark back to moments in recent history that continue to reverberate. One takes place in a remote backwater, the other in the industrial heartland, but they share themes of...
