Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Being my curmudgeonly self, I was less than thrilled with the announcement that the Mac-Haydn would bring me “Christmas in July” with a production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. It is my opinion that we get way too much Chistmas when it IS Christmas,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One look at the press release for the current Mac-Haydn production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and I knew that this would be the Mac-Haydn at their best. While the theatre frequently gets in very talented young performers for a season or two, it is the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 I have been a big fan of the American playwright John Guare (1938- ) since I was a teenager. Like Shakespeare, Stoppard and Chekhov, he uses language in fascinating and intricate ways, which I enjoy. But like the other three writers I have…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The production of Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond currently running at Oldcastle is definitely feel-good summer theatre. There is nothing wrong with that. I personally had a very good time at the show, especially since Carleton Carpenter’s Norman Thayer reminded me very much of my…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 In my recent review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Berkshire Theatre Festival I stated that, while there had been many pharmaceutical advances in treating the mentally ill since that play was written in 1963, life on a psych ward is pretty…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 “This is our adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation, related to our own community and circumstances with respect for classic form.”– Jonathan Croy, Director, Scapin I will entitle this review: “Scapin, or A Whole Lot of Fun for Free.” Shakespeare & Company has…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The wild, wild west – where men are men and women are men and outlaws dance (badly). Where the Town Tramp wears white while the “good girl” wears black (well, okay, her brother was just killed. Them’s just widder’s weeds.) Where plaintive guitar…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 There is a reason why this serious look at the dynamics of the delicate and tenuous relationships between human males and females has such a cutesy and frivolous title as Boy Gets Girl, but on a brief scan of the Theater Barn’s 2007 schedule…
