Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 By all reports Mill City Productions, the North Adams-based community theatre group started two years ago by alumni of the Drury Drama Team, is going great guns. For this, their third production of 2006, they are performing at Main Street Stage as part…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 This double bill, featuring a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and a stage adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Kerfol, is a modest little Halloween thrill. Shakespeare & Company has gone all out and decorated the lobby of the Founders’ Theatre with cobwebs…
by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 A lot of attention has been paid recently to the blossoming professional theatre scene in Berkshire County and its environs. We are indeed blessed with a great deal of excellent theatre, but we mustn’t become so star struck that we ignore the existence of…
Posted September, 2006 To the Editor: Let’s be honest here. The Williamstown Theatre Festival has been all about itself and not about its audience for years. It is a mere coincidence that Roger Rees’ term at the helm commenced as the WTF moved in the ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, the most…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 I was ten when the film Thoroughly Modern Millie was released and I remember enjoying it very much. Like every other little girl in the world at that time I had been lugged to see The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins over and over again by well-meaning elderly…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 On Golden Pond takes place from May-September of the 44th summer Norman (John Noble) and Ethel (Marci Bing) Thayer spend at their cabin on the titular lake in Maine. Norman turns 80 in July, and this milestone prompts a visit home from the Thayers’…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 Rounding Third is a pleasant little comedy about two little league coaches with very different views of the game that is being given a pleasant little production at the Theater Barn. Artistic Director Michael Marotta said that when he read this two-man play by…
by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 While I am sure you are all wanting to know how the Barrington Stage production of Jean Anouilh’s Ring Around the Moon is, I would bet dollars to doughnuts that what you really want to hear is my opinion of the company’s new home in the…
