Review by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 My 11-year-old son Brandon and I could not wait to see this show. I got tickets for the very first preview performance so that we would be sure not to miss it. And we were not disappointed. We had a really great time…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 Many people asked me why I was going to see “Company” if I had just seen it at Barrington Stage. This question illustrates the difference between people who understand the theatre and those who don’t. With film, once you have seen it, you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2000 “The Riot Act” makes no pretence at being high art. It is goofy, silly fun created by local folks for local folks. No jokes about the New York or LA scene will go whizzing past your ears here, just broad, bawdy, slapstick humor…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2000 It is REALLY worth the drive to the Weston Playhouse to see Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep”. It is howlingly funny and bawdy and campy and silly, and it is beautifully staged. Now that I am no longer The Press, I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 I have not read ALL of Michael Frayn by a long shot, but I have read enough to know that he is not all “Noises Off”. I have also read enough of his short “humorous” pieces to know that sometimes his humor goes…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 I was 13 years old when “Company” opened on Broadway in 1970. In my mind, it was the musical that established Stephen Sondheim as STEPHEN SONDHEIM, although I am well aware that he had had an illustrious career before that. It was a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2000 I drove to Weston to see “Saturday Night” because I could. There are not many places in the world where you can see five* Sondheim productions in the course of two months. Having seen the Barrington Stage production of “Company”, and with plans to see the…
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…
