WAM Theatre Announces 2018 Season
LENOX, MA (March 13, 2018) — WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven today announces plans for the company’s 2018 season. The Berkshire-based professional theatre…
Berkshire On Stage Critics Pick Their Favorites of the 2017 Season
The four critics who review for BerkshireOnStage.com – Gail M. Burns, Roseann Cane, Macey Levin, and Barbara Waldinger – have each listed their favorite regional…
Problematic production of “Private Lives” at Shakespeare & Company
Burns and Cane found that this “Private Lives” has great physical comedy, but at the expense of both script and character.
REVIEW: “The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I confess that I don’t quite understand the current kiddy mania for all things piratical. But be that…
REVIEW: “Scapin” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 “This is our adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation, related to our own community and circumstances with…
REVIEWS: Readings from Poe and Edith Wharton’s “Kerfol” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 This double bill, featuring a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and a stage adaptation of…
REVIEW: “The Servant of Two Masters” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I’ll eat my hat if Dan McCleary’s side-splitting production of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters isn’t the best…
REVIEW: “The Real Inspector Hound” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2003 I wanted to like this production. I really did. I want to see Main Street Stage succeed and…