by Chris Goudreau | Mar 20, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News
The first edition of the Valley Advocate was published on Sept. 19, 1973, with a cover story titled, “Prophet & Profit — ‘Spirit’ Dies,” about a large hippie commune in Leyden called “The Brotherhood of the Spirit,” which became defunct when more than half of them...
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Eight people are seated in a semi-circle at a meeting of Narcotics Anonymous. They are actually actors in a play, but though they’re not the recovering addicts they portray, each of them has a real-life connection to the nation’s — and the Valley’s — opioid crisis....
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 11, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Scott Braidman is giving me a tour of his workplace, the Hadley headquarters of Happier Valley Comedy, of which he’s the artistic director. It’s a bright, welcoming space in the Mill Valley Commons, a mixed-purpose building fronted by Route 9 and backed by cornfields....
by Chris Rohmann | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stagestruck
There’s a party going on in the basement of Chelle and Lank’s house – an unlicensed after-hours drink-and-dance dive in inner-city Detroit. That is, until a police raid on a similar establishment explodes into violence and the neighborhood goes up in flames. Detroit...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two elder ensembles are this week’s headliners. The Berkshire-based WAM Theatre has just announced its plans for a troupe of women over 65, and the latest offering from the British stage in the popular National Theatre Live series features a cast of old folks....
