Edgar Allan Poe’s life and death on stage at the Unicorn
A classic author of terror tales takes the stage just in time for Halloween.
Review: Berkshire Theatre Group tinkers with a classic: “Oklahoma!” at the Colonial
The core of a great musical has to be its heart and soul, not Brechtian nonsense.
REVIEW: “Candide” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 This is NOT the best of all possible Candides. If all of my colleagues have also led with this…
REVIEW: “The Einstein Project” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 (Click HERE for production photos.) “The art of stage performance cannot be judged by how closely the actors can imitate…
REVIEW: “Faith Healer” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 What is a fact in the context of autobiography? A fact is something that happened to me or…
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: “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: “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…