REVIEW: “Assassins” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Mill City Productions has a lovely new home in Western Gateway Heritage State Park. Unfortunately that is also the bad news for its first production there, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. The new space…

REVIEW: “Rabbit Hole” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 David Lindsay-Abaire wrote Rabbit Hole after fellow playwright and former Juilliard teacher Marsha Norman (‘Night, Mother) told him to write a play about something that frightened him. Being a good playwright, he wrote about death, because there is nothing bigger and scarier in the entire…

REVIEW: “Where’s My Money?” at Main Street Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Henry (Joshua Bishoff), a divorce lawyer, and Natalie (Kelli Newby), an accountant, have been married for two years and they are experiencing some marital difficulties. Both of them brought some excess baggage into the relationship – Henry the bitter memory of his first…

REVIEW: Mt. Greylock Regional High School Presents “The Winter’s Tale”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 1999 I have not seen “The Winter’s Tale” since that hazy period in my life BC (before children). Way back then I did a paper on Shakespeare’s “romances”, and I saw the scarcely performed play at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, with the…