Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 By all reports Mill City Productions, the North Adams-based community theatre group started two years ago by alumni of the Drury Drama Team, is going great guns. For this, their third production of 2006, they are performing at Main Street Stage as part…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Henry (Joshua Bishoff), a divorce lawyer, and Natalie (Kelli Newby), an accountant, have been married for two years and they are experiencing some marital difficulties. Both of them brought some excess baggage into the relationship – Henry the bitter memory of his first…
Posted May 1, 2006 This is an enlightening e-mail I received from David Lane, director of Like Home, a new full-length play by Jennifer Mattern (Lane’s wife and the “Jenn” to whom he refers), running through May 14 at Main Street Stage in North Adams. I always welcome response and dialogue about my…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2006 Click HERE to read the letter I received from director David Lane. I do not understand this play. I think it is beautiful, I think it is well acted, and I think it is very funny, but I do not understand it. That is very…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2006 Okay, this will sound really dumb, but all I could think as I watched Looking for Elizabeth was: “This sounds scripted.” Now I am fully aware that everything I review is scripted, so what made this play specifically sound that way? Well, let’s start at…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 Usually, I am fairly well in tune with the collective unconscious, but I fail to understand why for millennia humankind has seen the need to call up images of death and terror at the same time of year that the days are getting…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 “The springboard for my work is an image — a theatrical image — that can give birth to an entire play. For Tongue of a Bird, the image was of a woman in a 1920’s flight suit — leather jacket, helmet, goggles — hanging…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Proof opened in New York City in 2001, first off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club from whence it moved to the Walter Kerr Theatre a few months later. The second full-length play by a heretofore relatively unknown playwright, David Auburn, it went on to…
