by Gail M. Burns, July 2006. What an amusing and gentle bit of summer fun Rounding Third is. This tale of two very different men struggling to get along as the coach and assistant coach of the Little League team on which both of their sons play is consistently funny and has…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2006. Duet for One made me very angry. I suspect this is a very personal response because my fellow audience members did not appear to be leaving the theatre with steam coming out of their ears. This play did win the London Theatre Critics’ award for…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 My little brown cat Mary is the epitome of style over substance. I believe she is constituted thusly:5% Purrs and Meows5% Owl-y Eyes and Pointy Ears15% Structural Necessities (i.e. bones, blood, vital organs, etc.)75% Fluff Andrew Lloyd Webber has constructed his Cats along the same…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 Somehow, I had managed to live 49.5 years without paying much attention to Funny Girl. I had never seen the show or the film. I discovered that I wasn’t even that familiar with the score, which was a surprise. So the first question I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Henry (Joshua Bishoff), a divorce lawyer, and Natalie (Kelli Newby), an accountant, have been married for two years and they are experiencing some marital difficulties. Both of them brought some excess baggage into the relationship – Henry the bitter memory of his first…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 This summer the Berkshires are all about celebrating brothers who collect things. Starting with the Barrington Stage Company’s Stage II production of The Collyer Brothers at Home and continuing with The Rosenbach Company and the exhibit The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Born in Kyoto, Yuki Kato (1881-1963) was the daughter of a Samuri sword-maker, an honorable profession, but one that was on the wane in the latter part of the 19th century. Yuki and her sister were both sold to be Geishas to help support…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I usually hate to go out on Saturday night because then I miss my Brit-coms on PBS, Tony Simotes colorful and hilarious production of The Merry Wives of Windsor more than made up for my loss. Merry Wives is the ultimate Brit-com, and Benny Hill would have…
