REVIEW: “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”

by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 Without Gail Nelson and Billie Holiday there would be no Barrington Stage. In the summer of 1995 Julianne Boyd, following her stint as the artistic director of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, announced she was starting her own company and her first production would be Lady…

REVIEW: “South Pacific” at Barrington Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2002 It is a great pity that Christianne Teasdale is so dead wrong as Nellie Forbush, otherwise this would be a really great production of South Pacific. But because Teasdale tries and misses in this pivotal role, it is simply a good one. I say this…