PREVIEW: Shakespeare & Young Company 1999
by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live”– William Shakespeare, “King Richard II Talk about the bug biting!…
REVIEW: “Summer” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 This has been billed as the summer of “Summer”. Edith Wharton’s 1916 novella “Summer” has been adapted for…
REVIEW: “Private Eyes” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 It was such a huge surprise to walk in to Shakespeare & Company and discover a contemporary play…
REVIEW: “Love’s Labors Lost” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Until last night, “Love’s Labors Lost” was one of a handful of Shakespeare’s plays that I had neither…
REVIEW: “Sophie Tucker: Red Hot Mama” at the National Music Center
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 Vikki True is a really great singer. Starring her in a bio-revue of the life and music of…
REVIEW: “Richard III” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 You know you are in for it when the third person credited on the program is the Lamentation…
REVIEW: “Glimpses of the Moon” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “What may this meanThat thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon,Making night…
REVIEW: “A Room of One’s Own” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 Actress Tod Randolph and director Daniela Varon have brought Patrick Garland’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of…