Posted September, 2006 To the Editor: Let’s be honest here. The Williamstown Theatre Festival has been all about itself and not about its audience for years. It is a mere coincidence that Roger Rees’ term at the helm commenced as the WTF moved in the ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, the most…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 I was ten when the film Thoroughly Modern Millie was released and I remember enjoying it very much. Like every other little girl in the world at that time I had been lugged to see The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins over and over again by well-meaning elderly…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 On Golden Pond takes place from May-September of the 44th summer Norman (John Noble) and Ethel (Marci Bing) Thayer spend at their cabin on the titular lake in Maine. Norman turns 80 in July, and this milestone prompts a visit home from the Thayers’…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 Rounding Third is a pleasant little comedy about two little league coaches with very different views of the game that is being given a pleasant little production at the Theater Barn. Artistic Director Michael Marotta said that when he read this two-man play by…
by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 While I am sure you are all wanting to know how the Barrington Stage production of Jean Anouilh’s Ring Around the Moon is, I would bet dollars to doughnuts that what you really want to hear is my opinion of the company’s new home in the…
by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 The remaining show in the inaugural season of Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theatre Lab – Disorder: A Mother/Daughter Vaudeville is not open for review, therefore I will not be writing one. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to take this opportunity to encourage you to go…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 Once again the good folks at the Bakerloo Theatre Project are offering a special discount to GailSez readers! Mention this Web site at the box office at any Thursday or Sunday performance of “Julius Caesar” or “Antigone” and pay just $5!! This production should be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 For it would seem that we write not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fiber of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. – Virginia Woolf Seeing Via Dolorosa made me think a…
