REVIEW: “Hamlet” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I saw a wonderful new play yesterday called Hamlet. That is how I felt, anyway. Eleanor Holdridge’s staging of…
REVIEW: “The Servant of Two Masters” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I’ll eat my hat if Dan McCleary’s side-splitting production of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters isn’t the best…
REVIEW: “Fascinatin’ Gershwin” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 I am on record as disapproving of revuesicals. They are not really theatre and not really a concert.…
REVIEW: “Deathtrap” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Ira Levin’s Deathtrap is the uber-murder mystery play. Not only do three out of the five characters end up dead…
REVIEW: “The Graduate” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Just when you think of the Theater Barn as a nice safe little summer stock place they go…
REVIEW: “The Human Comedy” at Barrington Stage Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 “The threads of misery and joyAre woven fine.Into a vast design,When tragedy gives way to comedy.Until you can’t…
REVIEW: “The Burnt Part Boys” at Barrington Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 The first thing this show needs is a new title. The Burnt Part Boys suggests a tragic tale of burn…
REVIEW: “Fiddler on the Roof” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 I was once turned down for a desk job because I was “not ethnic enough.” Anyone with two…