Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 “I went to see an all African-American production of The Cherry Orchard with Gloria Foster and James Earl Jones as Lopakhin. I finally got it when [I watched Lopakhin buy] the cherry orchard – it’s the happiest and most devastating moment of his life! It’s…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I went to the theatre expecting a kind of rock ‘em sock ‘em robots production and I was not disappointed. The Comedy of Errors is not Shakespeare’s best play, but mercifully it is his shortest. Two hours of frantic slapstick performed by talented folks wearing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2003. “I had known something for New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield…however, I had an uneasy sense that the New England of fiction bore little…resemblance to the harsh and beautiful land as…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2003. King Lear is so very large and powerful a play that even writing about it is a daunting task. Performing it takes rare courage and commitment, and thank God Shakespeare & Company is up to it, because there is no way to do a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001. Did I tell everyone that A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the must-see show at Shakespeare & Company this season? I take that back. If you only have the time and money to see one grand Shakespearean production this summer, by all means make it The Tempest.…
