Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 I had hoped to be making much ado about Bakerloo once again, but I am sad to report that their production of Much Ado About Nothing focuses more on the nothing. In fact, director Ryan Howe has too much a-doing on the stage, without the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause:… But that the dread of something after death,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that “The Tempest” was my favorite of his plays. This decision was cemented in May when I was privileged to see a truly wonderful Tempest –a student production at Williams College (yes, it…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 ARGAN: Your Molière is a fine impertinent fellow with his comedies! I think it mightily pleasant of him to go and take off honest people like the doctors. BÉRALDE: It is not the doctors themselves that he takes off, but the absurdity of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 As we left Academy Hall after seeing the Bakerloo Theatre Project’s current production of Macbeth, my companion said to me: “I was amazed by how much I didn’t miss what wasn’t there!” What she was referring to was the genius director William Addis, his…
