REVIEW: “Hamlet” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 In 2006, when this production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge and starring Jason Asprey with his real-life mother…
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: “Martha Mitchell Calling” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 I am linking this review of the 2006 production at Shakespeare & Company to the 2007 production at…
REVIEW: “No Background Music” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 I wanted to be sure to separate my reviews of Martha Mitchell Calling and No Background Music because I knew from the…
REVIEW: “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I usually hate to go out on Saturday night because then I miss my Brit-coms on PBS, Tony…
REVIEW: “Hamlet” at Shakespeare & Company
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…
REVIEW: “Enchanted April” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2006 Enchanted April is a mediocre play based on a charming novel being given a far better production than it…
REVIEW: “King John” at Shakespeare & Company
by Gail M. Burns, AUGUST, 2005. “John, John, bad King John,Shamed the throne that he sat on…” Thus begins a poem by Herbert and Eleanor…