Circle Theatre Players, now in its 42nd season, present Weekend Comedy by Jeanne and Sam Bobrick. An older couple rents a rural getaway; however, due to a mixup in reservations, a younger couple also arrives.  Their decision to share leads to a comedic clash between the generations. September 10 & 11 and…
PITTSFIELD MA – Whitney Center for the Arts announces its dynamic 2019 summer season.  In keeping with the Whit’s tradition to present opera, the season opens with Mezzo Soprano Julie Rumbold in The Human Voice or La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc, a sensuous and devastating one-woman opera sung in English with Nathaniel Baker on Piano running…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 Don’t get me wrong, I like words. I use a lot of them every day. But I am mindful of the truth in the old saying “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” At its best, theatre is a seamless blend of words and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Something has gone horribly wrong with the Mill City Productions staging of Christopher Durang’s 1983 dark comedy Baby With The Bathwater. It’s not funny, and when a show this dark fails to provoke laughter it instead provokes gasps of horror, because there technically is nothing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 By all reports Mill City Productions, the North Adams-based community theatre group started two years ago by alumni of the Drury Drama Team, is going great guns. For this, their third production of 2006, they are performing at Main Street Stage as part…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 Usually, I am fairly well in tune with the collective unconscious, but I fail to understand why for millennia humankind has seen the need to call up images of death and terror at the same time of year that the days are getting…
Review by Gail M. Burns, November 2004 “EMILY: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live – every, every minute? STAGE MANAGER: No – saints and poets maybe – they do some.”– Thornton Wilder Our Town It is hard to believe that, until November 18, 2004, this curmudgeonly…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 The first time I ever encountered David Ives’ work I was quite horrified. But that was a big Main Stage production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, with a big Main Stage price tag. Ives doesn’t write big and he isn’t meant to be…
