Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 What a difference a director makes! Last summer Shakespeare & Company produced this same modern adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s 18th century comedy The Servant of Two Masters by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi under Dan McCleary’s direction and I hailed it as the funniest…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 There are three kinds of people in the world: people who love Chekhov, people who hate Chekhov, and people who are afraid of Chekhov because he’s Russian and everyone says he is a “great playwright.” I am a person who loves Chekhov. Whenever…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Director Kevin McGuire writes in his Director’s Notes that he found working on this production of Molière’s 1668 comedy The Miser to be the “perfect antidote to winter.” Indeed, in this hibernal season, which has made up for in ferocity what it lacked in timing,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2004 Hubbard Hall has once again brought an exciting, thought provoking world premiere musical to Washington County and given it a goreous and professional production. While not yet perfect, this musical version of Leonid Andreyev’s 1915 melodramatic tragedy He Who Gets Slapped is well worth seeing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 2003 Director Derek Campbell has taken a positively Wodehouseian approach to Oscar Wilde’s last play, and it works very well. Campbell has preserved the formality and stiffness of late Victorian Britain that Wilde so deftly lampoons, while moving the wordy dialogue along at a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 This is just a fabulous show. It looks and sounds like nothing I have seen at the theatre in many a day. It is billed as a “jam-rock musical” but it is really a rock opera, and it comes equipped with all the…
