REVIEW: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to…
REVIEW: “Love! Valour! Compassion!” at the
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 I have to confess that, having not done my customary research on Love! Valour! Compassion! before attending the performance, I…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 For deeply personal reasons, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a very difficult play for me to sit through. But…
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2006 People who know me will tell you that I am hardly Scrooge-like in my day-to-day life. But when…
REVIEW: “Via Dolorosa” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 For it would seem that we write not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve…
REVIEW: “The Smell of the Kill” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 “Now give three cheers. I?ll lead the way. Hoorah, hoorah, hooray!” – W.S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore Now give three…
REVIEW: “A Dream Play” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2001 As a critic and student of the theatre, I applaud the Berkshire Theatre Festival for their bold choice…
REVIEW: “Awake and Sing” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2001 (NOTE: Dylan McDermott does not appear in this production as previously advertised, although his wife, Shiva Rose, does.)…