REVIEW: “The News in Revue 2007”

by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 The News in Revue is a political satire troupe who have been performing regularly in the Berkshires since 1994. The front cover of their program identifies them as “[The] New York Times Meets Saturday Night Live, The Musical” and that is a fairly accurate description. Under…

REVIEW: “Three Days of Rain” at Oldcastle Theatre Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain is a finely tuned character study of two families – the Janeways: Edmund “Ned,” his wife Lina and their children Nan and Walker; and the Wexlers: Theo, Margaret, and their son Philip “Pip.” The first group we meet are…