REVIEW: “The Triumph of Darkness” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company’s annual Halloween benefit – is highly entertaining and a lousy night of theatre. I have…
REVEIW: “Old Wicked Songs” at the Dorset Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1998 The Dorset Theatre Festival is closing its 1998 season with a splendid and moving production of Jon Marans’…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Weston Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1998 Weston Playhouse is closing its 1998 season with a production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie”. This is…
REVIEW: “Simpatico” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1998 The production of Sam Shepard’s “Simpatico” at the Manic Stage in North Adams is theatre with a capital…
REVIEW: “The Little Foxes” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1998 When I was an aspiring teenage playwright, there were very few female playwrights for me to use as…
REVIEW: “The Magic Flute” at Berkshire Opera Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 Let me state at the outset that I am not an opera expert. I cannot discuss a singer’s…
REVIEW: “An Empty Plate at the Cafe de Grand Boeuf” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 This is the funniest tragedy I have ever seen. I laughed till I cried, and never harder than…
REVIEW: “The Secret Lives of the Sexists” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) was one of the leading players of the off-off- Broadway avant-garde theatre scene in New…