REVIEW: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at Hubbard Hall
by Gail M. Burns In 1983 successful singer/songwriter Rupert Holmes concocted a plan to make a musical out of Charles Dickens’ unfinished final work The…
Chester Theatre Company opens season with “Discord” – a comedy of ideas
Reviewer Gail M. Burns tells us about a play in which a Founding Father, a British Victorian novelist and a Russian revolutionary find themselves locked in a room in Chester, MA from which there appears to be no exit.
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival’
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2007 But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas Time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable,…
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: “A Christmas Carol at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1999 “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not…
REVIEW: “Scrooge” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1998 Manic Stage enters the annual Dickens frenzy this year with their own adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” entitled…