Berkshire on Stage

These puppets make for a “touching and very theatrical work,” says Gail Burns in her review.

Gail Burns finds the “The Chosen” is both beautiful and great theatre. Read her insightful review.

Of all the classic Christmas stories, Frank Capra’s A Wonderful Life is the holiday touchstone that best conflates holiday nostalgia with authentic real life situations. The Nutcracker is a bit too sugary, A Christmas Carol typically Victorian, Santaland Diaries is somewhat world weary and sarcastic, but A Wonderful Life hits…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2006 People who know me will tell you that I am hardly Scrooge-like in my day-to-day life. But when it comes to the barrage of annual productions based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, I am inevitably the sour-faced person on the aisle muttering “Bah,…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2005 The Emperor’s New Clothes is the sixth annual British-American Panto presented as a Thanksgiving treat for Columbia County and the surrounding region by Judy Staber and her stalwart Pantoloons, and this year they have a real, albeit small, theatre in which to perform. Having…

by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 “[Ubu is] the most extraordinary thing seen in the theatre for a long time.” – André Gide Its Free Theatre time again! This year’s offering, Ubu The King by Alfred Jarry, opens on July 31 and plays nightly at 6 pm through August 9 on Buxton…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2002 The Panto is back! Puss In Boots and the Witch of Punsit Creek is the third annual British-American pantomime production at Spencertown Academy, and, while it isn’t quite as hilariously loopy as its predecessors, it remains a highlight of the holiday season in Columbia County.…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2002 At the Williamstown Theatre Festival you get what you pay for. If you pay $50 per ticket you get the snazzy show on the Main Stage with big name stars. And at the Free Theatre you get the apprentices (who pay for the…