REVIEW: “West Side Story” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 “West Side Story” is the only musical on this season’s Mac-Haydn roster not to have won the Tony…
REVIEW: “Bells Are Ringing” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 I was so excited to see “Bells Are Ringing” on Oldcastle’s 1999 schedule. This happy 1956 musical with…
REVIEW: “HelloHiThanks”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 Sometimes you find theatre in the strangest places. On Tuesday night I found it way at the back…
REVIEW: “Moby Dick – Rehearsed” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Here you have playwright Orson Welles (“Citizen Kane”) adapting Herman Melville (“Moby Dick”) for the stage by way…
REVIEW: “Shoot the Piano Player” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 It is a dangerous proposition when the author, the director and the producer of a play are one…
REVIEW: “Monsters of Grace” at MASS MoCA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “Angels and ministers of grace defend us!” Hamlet cries when he first sees his father’s ghost in Act…
REVIEW: “Quark Victory” WTF at MASS MoCA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 “Quark Victory” is what we get this summer in lieu of the Free Theatre. So the burning question…
REVIEW: “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 “What happens to a dreamdeferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?”– Langston Hughes “Harlem [2]” Lorraine…