REVIEW: “The Colors of War: A Story of Love and Courage” at Ventfort Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 I have come to really look forward to the annual mono-dramas produced in cooperation with Shakespeare & Company at Ventfort Hall each…
REVIEW: “The Understudy” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 “I am a woman, I am an American, I am a mother, I sometimes write for television, and…
REVIEW: “The Violet Hour” at Barrington Stage Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 “I can’t find anything hopeless in having lived…in a hundred years I think I shall like having young…
REVIEW: “The Cherry Orchard” at Bakerloo Theatre Project
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 “Words fail Chekhov’s characters…lacking a Caliban or an Ariel to perform the actions they need, they are left…
REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Bakerloo Theatre Project
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that “The Tempest” was my favorite…
REVIEW: “Phantom” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 This is NOT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. I mean that both ways – it isn’t the…
REVIEW: “Hairspray” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 THE PROLOGUE I feel like Emily Litella. You remember, that character Gilda Radner used to do on the…
REVIEW: “Bedroom Farce” at Oldcastle Theatre Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 Alan Ayckbourn is a very popular playwright. Oldcastle has an excellent track record of producing his works. Their…