by Gail M. Burns In Berlin, Germany, in 1928 The Threepenny Opera was a huge and lucrative hit for Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Brecht’s…
Holiday greetings from all of us at Berkshire on Stage! This is your Webmaster (Webmistress??), Gail M. Burns (and my dog, Sylvie). I asked my…
By all appearances Jay Sefton, co-author and star of “Unreconciled”, which plays tonight and tomorrow night (June 26 & 27) at the Majestic Theater in…
by Gail M. Burns You will not enjoy this production if you are… 1. a Gilbertian purist 2. a Scotsperson who is rabid and humorless…
Preview by Gail M. Burns For the past three years or so, theatre artists David Cale and Dael Orlandersmith, along with musician Matthew Dean Marsh…
by Gail M. Burns “Theresa Rebeck is a fierce defender of the right to bear witness, an organizer, a galvanizer always willing to take big…
by Gail M. Burns Forever Plaid has been around for 30+ years now and I have seen dozens of productions, starting with one at The…
by Gail M. Burns “There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.” – Thelonious Monk Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) sang a…
