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…
REVIEW: “As You Like It” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 Let me make this very, very clear. For 21 years now Shakespeare & Company has been mounting the…
REVIEW: “Carmen” at Berkshire Opera Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves was described in the Berkshire Opera Company literature as “the world’s reigning Carmen”. Being an…
REVIEW: “Glimpses of the Moon” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company does many things well, but the two things it must do well to survive are…
REVIEW: “The Triumph of Darkness” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company’s annual Halloween benefit – is highly entertaining and a lousy night of theatre. I have…