Intergenerational Playwriting WorkshopFriday, December 10, 1:00-2:15pmBerkshire Community College, 1350 West St, Pittsfield, MA Williamstown Theatre Festival’s COMMUNITY WORKS co-founders Laura Savia and Lucy Thurber will lead a FREE public, in person intergenerational playwriting workshop, at Berkshire Community College on December 10, from 1:00-2:15pm. No prior experience necessary! Participants under 18 must…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 “The threads of misery and joyAre woven fine.Into a vast design,When tragedy gives way to comedy.Until you can’t discernThe line between them.”– William Dumaresq I cannot think of a show more wholesome and squeaky clean than The Human Comedy. When people speak about “American…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2000 One of the really great things about being a theatre critic is that you get to see all the shows. And one of the really awful things about being a theatre critic is that you have to see all the shows. No one…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 1999 I could rant and rave and hurt a lot of people’s feelings. Or I could keep sum this up in one sentence: This is an amateur production of “Side by Side by Sondheim”. That is really all you need to know. If you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “These are the mountains that give us such beauty,There are the meadows that give us such summer.”– Joan Vail Thorne When Margaret Lattimore and Michael Chioldi sang these words last night my eyes filled with tears. What a lovely, moving tribute to our…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Once again I offer my disclaimer that I am not an expert on opera. I can only view and review it from a theatrical point of view, not a musical one. Musically I get as far as everyone sang on key and the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 1999 I officially declare the 1999 Berkshire Theatre Season open with the Town Players production of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge”. I declare this so that I can add this production to my list of potential “best shows of the season” when…
