by Chris Rohmann | Oct 22, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Three productions by women-led theaters are playing in the Valley this weekend, and another opens in the Berkshires. They echo themes around gender – from activities women aren’t “supposed” to engage in, to a trans transition, to young men of color in the...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 15, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
National Theatre Live began its eleventh season this month and the Amherst Cinema has been there from the start, screening live-capture HD broadcasts from the London stage. First up is a transgressive, immersive Shakespeare (Oct. 19 & 30). That’s followed by...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 8, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Stagestruck
Anne Frank, who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at age 15, is the enduring image of innocence broken by the forces of hate. Thanks to the diary she kept in the Amsterdam attic where her family hid from the Gestapo, she’s also an inspiring symbol of...
by Chris Rohmann | Oct 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two Latinx plays in the area revolve around themes of dislocation — displaced neighborhoods, populations, and minds. Quixote Nuevo, at Hartford Stage, transplants Cervantes’ demented knight errant to a Texas border town, and Not for Sale, in Holyoke, puts the gente in...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 17, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
These days it seems you can’t put on a play without your publicity assuring the public it’s going to be funny – no matter what play it is. (“Hamlet, a timeless tragedy with doses of wacky humor.”) So it might be a little suspect to report that Silverthorne Theater...
