Previewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2003 The days are growing shorter and the frost is on the pumpkin. Are you ready for a rattling good evening of murder and mystery? Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from October 23 through November 15, the Main Street Stage is presenting The Real Inspector Hound by…
by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 Phil Soltanoff has been coming to Williamstown every summer since 1993. Pursuing his interest in mixing and blending the arts in new and interesting ways to create new forms of theatre, in 1996 he created an ensemble performance entitled “To Whom It May Concern.”…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 After preview performances last week, Main Street Stage officially opens their production of Martin McDonagh’s prize-winning play The Beauty Queen of Leenane tomorrow night. Set in the present day in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 The third MainStage production of the season, Dylan Thomas’ only work for the stage Under Milkwood is up and running at the WTF. If you have already seen it, or if you are gazing in wonder at the photos which accompany this article, you may be…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 “[Ubu is] the most extraordinary thing seen in the theatre for a long time.” – André Gide Its Free Theatre time again! This year’s offering, Ubu The King by Alfred Jarry, opens on July 31 and plays nightly at 6 pm through August 9 on Buxton…
by Gail M. Burns, June, 2003 Two decades ago, as her youngest child approached high school graduation, Joan Phelps turned to her husband Abe and said, “Let’s mortgage the house and start a theatre.” You can imagine his response, but they took the plunge and 20 years and 160+ productions…
The Yankee Thespian Festival is coming to North Adams – to Mass MoCA on Friday, April 28 and to Drury High School on Saturday, April 29. Students from eleven high schools and middle schools as close by as North Adams and Pittsfield, and as far away as Long Island, NY and Michigan will converge on Mass…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
