REVIEW: “The Batting Cage” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 This summer is just deja vue all over again. First the parallels between “Glimmer Brothers” (WTF-Nikos) and “Shoot the Piano Player” (BTF-Unicorn);…
REVIEW: “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The Mac-Haydn opened their 1999 season with “The Music Man” – a rousing, old-fashioned show about a town…
REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The only sure thing about the existing version of “Anything Goes” is that Cole Porter wrote the music…
REVIEW: “42nd Street” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Come on and meetThose dancing feet.On the avenueI’m takin’ you to –42nd street!”– Al Dubin This is it.…
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…
REVIEW: “Off the Hook” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 What a gosh-darned silly show this is! In case you haven’t heard “Off The Hook” – playing at…
REVIEW: “November” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “November”, which opened belatedly at Oldcastle on Tuesday, is a new play by a playwright who identifies himself…
REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” is neither comedy nor tragedy, romance…