by Chris Rohmann | Jul 2, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
Two world premieres kick off the season at Williamstown Theatre Festival, one a raucous comedy, the other a brief, intimate tragedy. The Closet holds forth on WTF’s Main Stage through July 14th, while The Sound Inside plays through the 8th on the smaller Nikos...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 29, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
The dance companies that opened this year’s season at Jacob’s Pillow epitomize the festival’s enduring mission. This week the mainstage hosts Pilobolus, one of the pillars of modern dance and still innovating after 45 years. And in the Pillow’s intimate Doris Duke...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 25, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
Silverthorne Theater Company has come a long way since its founding five summers ago. Struggling at first with difficult venues and miniscule audiences, the company, under the leadership of Lucinda Kidder, is now celebrating the half-decade mark with a permanent home...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 23, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
Bar Mitzvah Boy is a comedy that looks seriously at faith, community, and loss. Its premise contains the seeds of sitcom: A middle-aged Jewish lawyer who hasn’t set foot in a synagogue since he was a boy is suddenly in a rush to have his way-overdue becoming-a-man...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 18, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
Church & State is the funniest play about a serious issue I have ever seen. The issue is gun violence, specifically mass shootings, and the humor is threaded into the storyline so organically that, far from cheapening the theme, it lends to it a richer, more...
