by Chris Rohmann | Sep 12, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Hot on the heels of my recent rundown of women’s representation in the area’s summer theaters comes more encouraging evidence from some of the fall season’s first shows. The Majestic Theater is playing a cowboy musical in which the lead is not a boy. WAM Theater,...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 5, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Readers of this column will know my practice of periodically reporting on the progress (or not) in the representation of women and people of color in area theaters. The summer season has recently ended, so I’ve been making a tally of this summer’s shows. The news is...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 25, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
A few years ago, when I told my brother I was directing a production of As You Like It, he said, “That’s the one about Beatrice and Benedick, isn’t it?” Well, no, but the confusion is understandable. Several of Shakespeare’s comedies have interchangeable titles: As...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 24, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Review, Stagestruck
Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is ending its impressive summer season with a pair of productions, one celebrating a 50-year-old milestone, the other confronting our troubled present. On the mainstage, a lovingly rendered revival of West Side Story, running...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 8, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
When Shakespeare & Company first set up shop in the Berkshires, their mainstage was a greensward before a wooded glade at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s Lenox estate, with the audience seated on folding lawn chairs. That tradition has lately been revived, with outdoor...
