Mill City Productions (MCP)’s cabaret is returning, but it’s a new season and in a new location! Join us at the goregous Studio9 at the Porches Inn for an evening (or afternoon) of pop, rock, folk, country, showtunes, and more brought to you by 16 performers from around the Northeast,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Mill City Productions has a lovely new home in Western Gateway Heritage State Park. Unfortunately that is also the bad news for its first production there, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. The new space…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Mere hours before leaving to see the Mill City production of “Pippin” I wrote the following:“The point of community theatre is not present slick professional perfection, but to give average men and women a chance to experience the joy of performing great theatre…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Something has gone horribly wrong with the Mill City Productions staging of Christopher Durang’s 1983 dark comedy Baby With The Bathwater. It’s not funny, and when a show this dark fails to provoke laughter it instead provokes gasps of horror, because there technically is nothing…
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, March 2005 This was at least the fourth production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown that I have seen. As a child I saw the original off-Broadway production with Gary Burghoff (later “Radar” on M*A*S*H*), Reva Rose, and Skip and Bill Hinnant. As a senior in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 The first time I ever encountered David Ives’ work I was quite horrified. But that was a big Main Stage production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, with a big Main Stage price tag. Ives doesn’t write big and he isn’t meant to be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2004 Twenty one years ago Dan Goggin opened Nunsense at a New York cabaret called the Duplex. The show was based, believe it or not, on a successful line of greeting cards Goggin had developed, and what was supposed to be a four weekend run lasted…
