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: “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: “Glimpses of the Moon” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company does many things well, but the two things it must do well to survive are…
REVIEW: “The Triumph of Darkness” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company’s annual Halloween benefit – is highly entertaining and a lousy night of theatre. I have…