REVIEW: “The Colors of War: A Story of Love and Courage” at Ventfort Hall

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 I have come to really look forward to the annual mono-dramas produced in cooperation with Shakespeare & Company at Ventfort Hall each summer. The four I have seen – Morgan O-Yuki: Geisha of the Gilded Age, Dancing with the Czar and Fanny Kemble’s Lenox Address â€“ each introduced me to a woman…

REVIEW: “The Light in the Piazza”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 As the son of Mary Rodgers Guettel (Once Upon a Mattress) and the grandson of Richard Rodger, famous for his solo creations as well as his musical theatre collaborations with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, it would have been extraordinary if Adam…

REVIEW: “Broke-ology” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 “He’s dying, but he’s not dead yet,” Malcolm King observes about his father William, who is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Malcolm has just completed a degree in environmental science and economics from UConn and has been accepted to graduate school and met a…