Berkshire on Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2006 “The joint is jumpin’,It’s really jumpin’,Come in cats an’ check your hats,I mean this joint is jumpin’.The piano’s thumpin’,The dancers bumpin’.This here spot is more than hot,In fact the joint is jumpin’”– Andy Razaf and J. C. Johnson I once had the fun…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Songs for a New World is basically a semi-staged concert of songs by Jason Robert Brown, an up-and-coming young composer and lyricist. In the decade since its brief 28 performance premiere at the WPA theatre in New York, the show has had over 300…