REVIEW: Ulrike Quade “The Wall” at MASS MoCA
Comments by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 “No matter how we rehearse our intention, the performance has its own accidents.” – M.C. Richards Every time…
REVIEW: Dirck Toll in “Relax – I Brought Enough Ego for Everybody” and “Irregular Opposition”
by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 “…someplace between the twin extremes of Artifice and Edifice…” lies the writing of Dirck Toll. In this review you…
REVIEW: “The Rosenbach Company” at MASS MoCA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 This summer the Berkshires are all about celebrating brothers who collect things. Starting with the Barrington Stage Company’s Stage…
REVIEW: Dirck Toll in “Before and After Intermission”
by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 If you have never seen Dirck Toll, and there are probably more of you who haven’t than who have, he…
PREVIEW: Mad Dog Presents “LEM” at MASS MoCA
by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 Phil Soltanoff has been coming to Williamstown every summer since 1993. Pursuing his interest in mixing and blending the…
REVIEW: “And God Created Great Whales” at MASS MoCA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2001 I see an awful lot of traditional, realistic, proscenium-bound theatre, so when the opportunity arises to see something…
REVIEW: “Arctic Circle” and “Sea Change” at Thunder Bay Ensemble
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001 I read about the Thunder Bay Ensemble when they performed these two works last summer. I was intrigued, but East…
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…