Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School“Saint Joan”May 10 and 11 at7:00 PM PVPA 15 Mulligan Drive, South Hadley, MA 01075 Saint Joan is a play about the historical figure Joan of Arc (a religious woman who fought for France in the 1400s and was burnt at the stake) written by…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods MY FAIR LADY has opened at Proctors and it is a sparkling, joyous, and beautiful show of a classic that has not lost its appeal. First produced on Broadway in 1956 with the iconic Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison starring as Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins,…
Proctors is excited to welcome the North American tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY, directed by Bartlett Sher, at Proctors Tuesday, May 17 to Sunday, May 22, 2022. Tickets are available through the Box Office at Proctors, in person or via phone at 518-346-6204 Monday-Friday…
Proctors Collaborative is pleased to announce that the North American tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY, directed by Bartlett Sher, will play Proctors from Tuesday, May 17 to Sunday, May 22, 2022.   Lincoln Center Theater’sproduction of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY is the winner…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Men have this problem with women. They want us to be virgins, they want us to be whores, they want us to be mothers. So they have created the impossible ideal of the Virgin Mother, which generations of women have been punished for…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 [The British public] just stared [at Anton Chekhov’s plays] and said, ‘How Russian!’ They did not strike me in that way. Just as Ibsen’s intensely Norwegian plays exactly fitted every middle and professional class suburb in Europe, these intensely Russian plays fitted all…
“And was Jerusalem builded hereamong these dark Satanic Mills?” – William Blake, “And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was greatly concerned with the dark satanic mills of Victorian Britain, and although there is nary a mill in sight in the published text his 1893 play Mrs.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1914 play Pygmalion and Gabriel Pascal’s 1938 film of the same, is often called the perfect musical. While remaining extremely faithful to its roots, the music and dance seem to spring effortless from the script. In this…
