Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Until last night, “Love’s Labors Lost” was one of a handful of Shakespeare’s plays that I had neither read nor seen performed. When I read up on the play in preparation, I discovered that it had long been considered one of the very…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,Making night hideous, and we fools of natureSo horridly to shake our dispositionWith thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?” – Hamlet, Act I, scene iv It…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company does many things well, but the two things it must do well to survive are stage Shakespeare and adapt Edith Wharton to the stage. In “Glimpses of the Moon” they have done the latter very well, but Edith Wharton, no…