Berkshire on Stage

A ghostly goulash of Borscht Belt jokes, Broadway tunes and dead sitcom characters, The Addams Family delights fans of the Addams Family, and newcomers to this goofy, ghastly show.

A treat for the whole family, Young Frankenstein is a hoot with a monster, music and lots of flat-out comedy.

Burns and Cane remind us how pleasant it can be just to have a night of silly fun at the theater. Read More…

Continuing until September 4, the whole concept of the show The Drowsy Chaperone sounds sort of goofy, and it is. But it works. The musical has a simple premise, the Man in Chair (Craig Treubert) puts an original cast recording on the turntable and it comes to life in his…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 If you are a fan of the American musical theatre (and the work of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber) over the last 50-75 years, you will just LOVE “The Musical of Musicals: The Musical,” a 2003 off-Broadway hit being given the perfect production at…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The wild, wild west – where men are men and women are men and outlaws dance (badly). Where the Town Tramp wears white while the “good girl” wears black (well, okay, her brother was just killed. Them’s just widder’s weeds.) Where plaintive guitar…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 No matter where you live, there has probably been a production of Urinetown mounted within an hour’s drive of your home this summer. This award-winning musical about a city where you have to pay to pee is a hot property, and the Theater Barn has…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2003 I just loved this show! Of course, I know every line, lyric, and note of Gilbert & Sullivan’s 1878 operetta H.M.S. Pinafore – of which this 1945 George S. Kaufman opus is a clever parody – so I cannot imagine what entertainment value the show…