The Wharton Salon and Pythagoras Theatre Works collaborated to present two delightful one act plays, superbly produced and acted at The Mount.

The Tragedy of King Lear is, after a long absence, back on the Main Stage of Shakespeare & Company. Gail Burns and Roseann Cane report on opening night. Read More…

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 Edith Wharton’s Kerfol, is a modest little Halloween thrill. Shakespeare & Company has gone all out and decorated the lobby of the Founders’ Theatre with cobwebs…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I saw a wonderful new play yesterday called Hamlet. That is how I felt, anyway. Eleanor Holdridge’s staging of Shakespeare’s masterpiece made me feel as if I was seeing the play for the first time. As if it were some new work built out…

by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005. This gentle and perfect afternoon of theatre puts me in mind of a modest engagement ring: two perfect twinkling diamond chips set in a soft setting of warm yellow gold. Not big and flashy but breathtakingly beautiful to those who take the time to…

by Gail M. Burns, June, 2005. In years to come, when someone asks me about The Ice Glen, I think that I will tell them that I saw it on a crisp fall day, when the scenery outside of the Spring Lawn mansion was ablaze with color and the geese could…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 (On July 28th Christine Marie Brown took over the role of Rosalind. Click HERE to read my update.) I saw As You Like It with a crowd of Elderhostel folks. An elderly man was seated to my left and when the final curtain fell (metaphorically,…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2003. “I had known something for New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield…however, I had an uneasy sense that the New England of fiction bore little…resemblance to the harsh and beautiful land as…