Berkshire on Stage

Clara Schumann has taken up residence at Ventfort Hall in Lenox this summer, in a one-woman show performed by Sarah Jeanette Taylor. Read More…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 I have come to really look forward to the annual mono-dramas produced in cooperation with Shakespeare & Company at Ventfort Hall each summer. The four I have seen – Morgan O-Yuki: Geisha of the Gilded Age, Dancing with the Czar and Fanny Kemble’s Lenox Address – each introduced me to a woman…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2004 The set is lovely. Three accomplished actors whose work I have enjoyed in the past tread the boards. And yet there is something lackluster about this first produced play for Williamstown playwright Chris Newbound. My guess is that Morning, Noon, and Night is still a…

Previewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2004 Beginning April 29, Main Street Stage is presenting a new work by Williamstown playwright Christopher Newbound entitled Morning, Noon, and Night. Newbound first began to develop the work in 2003 while taking a class at Inkberry entitled “The Art of the One-Act Play” taught…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2003. “I had known something for New England village life long before I made my home in the same county as my imaginary Starkfield…however, I had an uneasy sense that the New England of fiction bore little…resemblance to the harsh and beautiful land as…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2003 This is a review of four separate plays/monologues and one afternoon at the theatre. After succeeding in previous years with collections of one-act plays based on the works of Edith Wharton and Henry James, Shakespeare & Company is presenting four short pieces by…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2002. I judge many shows by how entertaining they are for Brandon, my thirteen year old son who is my most frequent theatre-going companion. I decided early on that he should be my date to The Scarlet Letter since he will undoubtedly have to read it…