Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Will I ever get out of the year 1890 this summer?? Carousel, Hello, Dolly!, and, obviously, Paris 1890, Unlaced are all set in that year. The Gay Nineties, the Gilded Age, La Belle Epoch” – whatever you call them, the last years of the 19th century were…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 What’s brightly colored, lots of fun, and chock-full of wonderful singing and dazzling dancing? Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Mac-Haydn. I just have four words of advice for you: Go, go, go, go! Joseph… is the earliest work by the man who…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Even if you just started reading my reviews last week, it must be evident that I am an avid theatre historian, especially when it comes to American musical theatre. So you would think that Broadway By The Year®, a series of revues created by…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 In 2006, when this production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge and starring Jason Asprey with his real-life mother Tina Packer as Gertrude and his real-life step-father Dennis Krausnick as Polonius, was first presented at Shakespeare & Company, I was the only Berkshire area…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Every year I concoct a marathon Saturday of theatre in Lenox. This enables me to see the two halves of Shakespeare & Company’s free offering on the tented Rose Footprint stage, the one-woman show across the street at Ventfort Hall, and something else…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Three thousand years ago Joshua ‘fit the battle of Jericho,’ and ever since Jews, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Muslims have been killing each other over the limited real estate. Different bloodstreams with different memories, and I see little reason to think…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “We believe that the creative impulse is essential to the human soul, and that the Arts are the most realized expression of this impulse.” – Shakespeare & Company Mission Statement I am here to tell you that you would be foolish not to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 One of the things I get to do in my day job as a church secretary is help bereaved families design their loved one’s memorial service bulletin. It is not unusual for them to bring me a cherished old photo from 50 years…
