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…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April, 2000 As a theatre critic, I have to say that I found “In a Lake of Fire” a very powerful piece of theatre. Probably one of the best theatrical experiences that I have had in a long time. The acting, the singing, the set,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2000 I am happy to say that I left the Mt. Greylock auditorium with a considerably happier heart than when the curtain fell after “Gigi” last month. “A Day In The Life” an effort by teacher Sunny Da Silva and various students in the Mt. Greylock Middle School…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2000 Hoosick Falls Central School did “Little Shop” as their spring musical, and, of course, my younger son Brandon had to go and see it. So far the longest trip we have taken to see a production of “Little Shop” (we have seen four)…
