Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 It is a crime that the WTF can sell-out with a nothing-burger like “Factory Girls” and Oldcastle can fill barely half the house for their season opener “Later Life” by A. R. Gurney. Oldcastle is offering a considerably better show for the money,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 Actress Tod Randolph and director Daniela Varon have brought Patrick Garland’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” back to Shakespeare & Company after their brief sold-out visit last summer. It is a pleasure to welcome this gracious and thought-provoking work…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 Let me make this very, very clear. For 21 years now Shakespeare & Company has been mounting the Bard’s work at The Mount in Lenox. This year they are doing “as You Like It” along with three other Shakespeare plays. This production is…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 This is one of those fabulous flops that enters into modern theatre folk-lore. “Mack and Mabel” ran this than two months in its initial Broadway outing in 1974, but people still talk about it. Because of this continued interest it is often produced…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 There seemed to be a great deal of excitment about “The Factory Girls” the season opener at the WTF’s Nikos Stage. I couldn’t figure out why. This wasn’t a play I had heard a great deal about, and the WTF wasn’t tooting its…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 I suppose, if the WTF is to continue its tradition as a leading interpreter of Tennessee Williams, that eventually they would have to do “Camino Real”. In fact this is not the first time they have dragged Williams’ incoherent 1953 flop on to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 This sounds like a really good idea. Get seven award-winning modern playwrights to each write a play based on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and stage them all in one evening. Shakespeare is the man of the hour, and how can you go wrong…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 You have got to go and see the set for this show, and that means that you have got to go and see the show because the set itself, just sitting there, is nothing. You have got to go and see it in…
