REVIEW: “The Notebook: The Musical” at The Bushnell

by Suzanne Wells, Special to Berkshire on Stage The Bushnell presents “The Notebook The Musical” by Bekah Brunstetter, music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. A trio of heartfelt and poignant tales—of young love, mature love, and enduring love—are beautifully woven together and brought…

REVIEW: “True West” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Towards the end of Sam Shepard’s True West a mother returns home from an Alaskan cruise to find her two 30-something sons dead drunk and brawling all over her house, an activity in which they have been engaged for some time and so her furniture and…

REVIEW: “The Atheist” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2008 George Bernard Shaw grouped his earliest published plays into volumes entitled Pleasant and Unpleasant. Using that system, Ronan Noone’s The Atheist, currently on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is decidedly an Unpleasant Play. An Unpleasant Play is not a Bad Play,…