REVIEW: “Othello” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 As I watched the current production of Othello at Shakespeare & Company, I was struck by what a clean play…
REVIEW: “The Colors of War: A Story of Love and Courage” at Ventfort Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 I have come to really look forward to the annual mono-dramas produced in cooperation with Shakespeare & Company at Ventfort Hall each…
REVIEW: “The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I confess that I don’t quite understand the current kiddy mania for all things piratical. But be that…
REVIEW: “All’s Well That Ends Well” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 The morning after I saw Tina Packer’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well, I was sorting through my…
REVIEW: “The Ladies Man” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Last year, when Shakespeare & Company opened with a production of Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing, many of my colleagues…
REVIEW: “Fanny Kemble’s Lenox Address “
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2007 “The death I would prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse…
REVIEW: “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Deborah E. Burns, October 2007 Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout; various kings and their fools: literature abounds…
REVIEW: “Dancing with the Czar” at Ventfort Hall
“In a thousand years man will sigh just the same, ‘Ah, how hard life is,’ and yet just as now he will be afraid of…