REVIEW: “The Winter’s Tale” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001 Okay, I cannot properly call this a review because Brandon and I departed for home at intermission. I…
REVIEW: “H. M. S. Pinafore” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 Like Major General Stanley, I can “whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore.” It is hard to…
REVIEW: “This is Our Youth” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 The first thing the BTF needs to do is change the title of this play. It is not…
REVIEW: “On the Twentieth Century” at Barrington Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 I am a big fan of Barrington Stage, regularly driving the hour and a quarter from Williamstown to…
REVIEW: “Panache” at Oldcastle
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 Whoever decided to bill Panache as a screwball comedy has done Oldcastle a great disservice. Although I am hard pressed…
REVIEW: “Coriolanus” at Shakespeare & Company
Coriolanus is one of the few Shakespearean plays that I had never seen or read, and I had heard that this production by Shakespeare and Company, which…
REVIEW: “The Pirates of Penzance” at the Weston Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2001 It is beyond me how anyone could not have a wonderful time and be thoroughly entertained by the Weston…
REVIEW: “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)” at Shakespeare & Company
Review by Gail M. Burns, May, 2001 To my great surprise, I discovered that I had written a review of this show when my younger son Brandon…