by Chris Rohmann | Sep 11, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two shows coming to this area have Mexican echoes. One is a children’s-story allegory of the current border crisis, the other a Mexican dramedy with an international range. Ropes, by Bárbara Colio, has been performed extensively in Spanish-speaking countries,...
by Chris Rohmann | Sep 2, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Thinking back over the summer theater season just ended, images from memorable shows are passing before my mind’s eye, and ear — from striking moments in performances to sets and soundscapes. Here are some Valley snapshots. Chester Theatre Company celebrated its 30th...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 20, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
It wasn’t intentional, but thinking back on the programs I’ve seen at Jacob’s Pillow this summer, and forward to one that’s on this week, I realized that every concert on my dance card this year is by African-American-led companies. Unintentional, perhaps, but not...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 13, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Shakespeare & Company’s name has threefold associations. It’s a theater that works in the company, as it were, of its eponym. It shares the name of the legendary bookshop on Paris’s Left Bank, lending an air of bohemian audacity and camaraderie to the enterprise...
by Chris Rohmann | Aug 6, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Summertime is winding down, and so is the Valley’s theater season – but not quite yet. Chester Theatre Company opens its final show this week (see below), Double Edge Theatre continues the month-long run of its perambulating epic I Am the Baron (reviewed here), and...
