Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 I had hoped to be making much ado about Bakerloo once again, but I am sad to report that their production of Much Ado About Nothing focuses more on the nothing. In fact, director Ryan Howe has too much a-doing on the stage, without the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that “The Tempest” was my favorite of his plays. This decision was cemented in May when I was privileged to see a truly wonderful Tempest –a student production at Williams College (yes, it…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 ARGAN: Your Molière is a fine impertinent fellow with his comedies! I think it mightily pleasant of him to go and take off honest people like the doctors. BÉRALDE: It is not the doctors themselves that he takes off, but the absurdity of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 As we left Academy Hall after seeing the Bakerloo Theatre Project’s current production of Macbeth, my companion said to me: “I was amazed by how much I didn’t miss what wasn’t there!” What she was referring to was the genius director William Addis, his…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 Once again the good folks at the Bakerloo Theatre Project are offering a special discount to GailSez readers! Mention this Web site at the box office at any Thursday or Sunday performance of “Julius Caesar” or “Antigone” and pay just $5!! This production should be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Once again the good folks at the Bakerloo Theatre Project are offering a special discount to GailSez readers! Mention this Web site at the box office at any Thursday or Sunday performance of “Julius Caesar” or “Antigone” and pay just $5!! Like Eleanor Holdridge’s Hamlet currently running…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2005 I confess to being concerned when I first saw the publicity stills for the Bakerloo Theatre Project’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”. They featured Sarah Murphy in costume as Cobweb looking like a Threepenny whore in Converse hi-tops. I am a big…
