Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 RUN EXTENDED IN PITTSFIELD AUGUST 17-21 ! “Hair simply could not have existed ten years ago, and it is conceivable that it could mystify audiences ten years from now, but it does catch, and quite successfully, one of the many moods and aspects of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 The first word that came to my mind to describe Cusi Cram’s Fuente receiving its world premiere at Barrington Stage’s Stage II, was “Fantastic”. In these language-lazy times we too often accept that word as merely a synonym for “good”. I could just see myself…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2005 While Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings is certainly excellent theatre, it is not exactly a play. Set in a Pittsburgh funeral home, it consists of three monologues by characters who really don’t know each other and who are each mourning the passing of different people. Having…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 2003 This is an exhilarating production of a fascinating play. In Lebensraum Israel Horovitz, one of America’s greatest living playwrights, has concocted a fantasy of what would happen if Germany suddenly invited six million Jews to emigrate there, in order to atone for the horrors of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1999 And the theatre critic said unto them, “Behold! I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be unto all theatre goers. For unto you is born this day, in the city of New Lebanon, a savior from theatrical withdrawl. And it shall…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Godspell” was the first show I ever saw at the Theater Barn. It was their second seaon and they were performing in a store front in downtown New Lebanon, where the Hitching Post Cafe is now (good place to catch a bite to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 In 1962 Sid Ceasar was the reigning King of America Comics. He made a triumphant return to the Broadway stage in “Little Me” – a musical tailor-made for him by a hand-picked creative team. Neil Simon wrote the book, Cy Coleman wrote the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 This is a very pleasant evening at the theatre. I left the house thinking, “This will be pleasant.” and when I turned to my companion at the end of the show she said, “Well, that was pleasant.” Pleasant. Pleasant is the word. Is…
