REVIEW: “Dr. Holmes of Boston” at The Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 1999 Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor of medicine, a popular humor writer, a founder of “The Atlantic” magazine,…
REVIEW: Town Players Present “”Picasso at the Lapin Agile”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 1999 At one point in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” author Steve Martin,(yes, that Steve Martin) has a minor…
REVIEW: “Scrooge” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1998 Manic Stage enters the annual Dickens frenzy this year with their own adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” entitled…
REVIEW: “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at MCLA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1998 In what is becoming a holiday tradition, local artists have once again staged “Amahl and the Night Visitors”…
REVIEW: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 If you love Shakespeare then this is your lucky month! The Manic Stage began the onslaught, opening “A…
PREVIEW: The 1998 Fall Festival of Shakespeare
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 For the past two months students at McCann, Mt. Greylock, and eight other western Massachusetts high schools…
REVIEW: “The Oppenheimer Project (Oppenheimer 2.0)” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 D.J. McDonald and Jennifer Johanos have done a great deal of work and research on the life and…
REVIEW: “Carmen” at Berkshire Opera Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves was described in the Berkshire Opera Company literature as “the world’s reigning Carmen”. Being an…