REVIEW: “Calvin Berger” at Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab
by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 Calvin Berger is the Brady Bunch of musical comedy. I was twelve when Brady Bunch first came on the air. In real life I…
REVIEW: “Two-Headed” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Julie Jensen’s 2000 drama Two-Headed is not an easy play. It is not easy to perform and it is not…
REVIEW: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to…
REVIEW: The Capitol Steps at Cranwell
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 The Capitol Steps have a decades-long national reputation for biting, hilarious political satire. I have wanted to see them…
REVIEW: Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Being my curmudgeonly self, I was less than thrilled with the announcement that the Mac-Haydn would bring me…
REVIEW: “Thoroughly Modern Millie” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One look at the press release for the current Mac-Haydn production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and I knew that this…
REVIEW: “Bosoms and Neglect” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 I have been a big fan of the American playwright John Guare (1938- ) since I was a…
REVIEW: “On Golden Pond” at Oldcastle Theatre Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The production of Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond currently running at Oldcastle is definitely feel-good summer theatre. There is nothing…