REVIEW: “The Comedy of Errors” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001. This earliest of Shakespeare’s plays is the 2001 offering of Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Performance Institute (SPI). You can count…
REVIEW: The Wharton One-Acts “An International Episode” & “The Rembrandt”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001. In this, the opening show in Shakespeare & Company’s new Spring Lawn Theatre, I was struck by the amazing…
REVIEW: “Arctic Circle” and “Sea Change” at Thunder Bay Ensemble
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001 I read about the Thunder Bay Ensemble when they performed these two works last summer. I was intrigued, but East…
REVIEW: “The Winter’s Tale” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001 Okay, I cannot properly call this a review because Brandon and I departed for home at intermission. I…
REVIEW: “H. M. S. Pinafore” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 Like Major General Stanley, I can “whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore.” It is hard to…
REVIEW: “This is Our Youth” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 The first thing the BTF needs to do is change the title of this play. It is not…
REVIEW: “On the Twentieth Century” at Barrington Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 I am a big fan of Barrington Stage, regularly driving the hour and a quarter from Williamstown to…
REVIEW: “Panache” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 Whoever decided to bill Panache as a screwball comedy has done Oldcastle a great disservice. Although I am hard pressed…