Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 I am keenly aware that this is a high school production and that tender young egos are at stake here, and so I will heed the good advice of Thumper’s father: “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything.” And…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 “Lysistrata” is always a fun show. This seems pretty remarkable since it was first performed in 411 B.C.E., but when you consider that its subject is sex, it all becomes perfectly clear. Sex is wonderful and awful, but most of all it is…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2000 One of the really great things about being a theatre critic is that you get to see all the shows. And one of the really awful things about being a theatre critic is that you have to see all the shows. No one…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1999 “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly and no…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 1999 This is the third production of “The Glass Menagerie” that I have reviewed in the past eighteen months. So I went in thinking I knew it all – Tom, Laura, Amanda, the Gentleman Caller, blue roses and little glass unicorns. But I found…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 1999 They just don’t get it. It is a pity, because “Little Shop of Horrors” is a perfectly constructed small-scale musical, and it has legions of devoted fans – myself included. But the Williams students who have mounted the current production on the AMT…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 The last Greek tragedy that I saw was the WTF production of “Hecuba” in which Olympia Dukakis shook her head and announced “I am da muddah of all mis-ah-rees!” – looking so much like Jimmy Durante that I almost burst out laughing. Of…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
