REVIEW: “Bad Dates” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 As mid-winter entertainment, Bad Dates is very, very good. Elizabeth Aspenlieder is a talented comedienne. Theresa Rebeck is a literate and witty playwright. Behind the scenes Shakespeare & Company supports their efforts with a top-notch professional staff of designers and techies. But I knew all of…

REVIEW: “Tuesdays with Morrie” at the Town Players of Pittsfield

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”– Morrie Schwartz And writing, reading, reciting, reenacting, gives humans the illusion that a relationship has some measure of “immortality” – look at the annual rituals of any organized religion. In the mid-1990’s portswriter Mitch Albom collaborated…