by Lisa Covi Special to Berkshire on Stage A light adult comedy warmed the winter opening night of “Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help” at The Majestic Theater in West Springfield, MA. Priming the audience with the setting’s early 1970’s music, this play presents a devoted and generous Irish…
by Mark G. Auerbach Special to Berkshire on Stage If you’re looking for a two-hour escape from the winter chill and/or the 24-hour news cycle, The Majestic offers a winning option. Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Katie Forgette’s comedy/memory play provides a pleasant diversion, and the Majestic’s production and performances…
West Springfield, MA (12/1624) – West Springfield’s Majestic Theater will present Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a comedy by Katie Forgette, onstage January 9 through February 16. Set in 1973, this play is a wild and tender comedy that focuses on the cash strapped O’Shea family. 19-year-old Linda O’Shea, the…
West Springfield, MA (12/1624) – West Springfield’s Majestic Theater will present Incident at Our lady of Perpetual Help, a comedy by Katie Forgette, onstage January 9 through February 16. Set in 1973, this play is a wild and tender comedy that focuses on the cash strapped O’Shea family. 19-year-old Linda O’Shea, the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 Ragtime is an amazing musical. You may never have heard of it or may have glanced at the title and dismissed it as one more revue-sical of historic music, but trust me, it is one of the great musicals of the 20th century and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Wowie-wow-wow! Whadda show! All singing, all dancing. Everyone and everything in the Cohoes Music Hall production of Anything Goes looks and sounds just great. This current retooling of the 1934 Cole Porter opus, which I am assuming is the 1987 Broadway version with a revised…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2003 Like millions of young girls, Frances Hodgson Burnett was one of my favorite authors when I was growing up. I confess that I vastly preferred the plucky Sara Crewe of A Little Princess (1905) to the sour Mary Lennox of The Secret Garden (1911) but in my adult years…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2003 The Mac-Haydn is offering up a cheerful, likeable, and oddly uneven production of Hello Dolly! Basically, the leading ladies are great and the leading men are miscast. Since this is a show about a woman, told very much from a woman’s point of view, things…
