by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 You know that saying: “Old age is not for sissies”? Well that applies to theatre companies as well as people. Late in its ninth decade of existence, the Town Players of Pittsfield, the second oldest community theatre group in the nation, has appeared to…
by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Ah, The Mikado. That wholesome, fun-filled family show about decapitation… You know, even though I know every note and every word of it and have directed it twice I still can’t tell you the plot off the top of my head. That is because a)…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 1999 At one point in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” author Steve Martin,(yes, that Steve Martin) has a minor character admonish Picasso and Einstein saying something to the effect of, “You must watch your words very carefully, or they will turn on you like…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1998 Let me state at the outset that I am not an opera expert. I cannot discuss a singer’s coloratura or vibrato; and I barely know an aria from a recitative. But I know what I like when I see it, and Berkshire Opera…
