REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The only sure thing about the existing version of “Anything Goes” is that Cole Porter wrote the music…
REVIEW: “42nd Street” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Come on and meetThose dancing feet.On the avenueI’m takin’ you to –42nd street!”– Al Dubin This is it.…
Comments on “Animation and Apartheid: William Kentridge”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 1999 I am sorry I have not been able to attend more of Mass MoCA’s Animation Festival and other…
REVIEW: “Off the Hook” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 What a gosh-darned silly show this is! In case you haven’t heard “Off The Hook” – playing at…
REVIEW: “November” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “November”, which opened belatedly at Oldcastle on Tuesday, is a new play by a playwright who identifies himself…
REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” is neither comedy nor tragedy, romance…
PREVIEW: Shakespeare & Young Company 1999
by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live”– William Shakespeare, “King Richard II Talk about the bug biting!…
REVIEW: “Summer” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 This has been billed as the summer of “Summer”. Edith Wharton’s 1916 novella “Summer” has been adapted for…