North Adams, MA, September 23, 2021 – The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum ofContemporary Art (MASS MoCA) announced today that Kristy Edmunds has been appointed as its newDirector, following a 10-month international search and a unanimous decision by the Board. Edmundscomes to MASS MoCA from UCLA’s Center for…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2006 The great mystery of life can be summed up in the words Absence and Presence. I have been witness now to both birth and death, and I can tell you that the puzzler in both cases is where that life came from or went…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 This summer the Berkshires are all about celebrating brothers who collect things. Starting with the Barrington Stage Company’s Stage II production of The Collyer Brothers at Home and continuing with The Rosenbach Company and the exhibit The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2005 Although MASS MoCA brings some really exciting cutting-edge theatre to the Berkshires, I seldom review the productions because they generally only run for one or two performances. I don’t just write to hear myself type, I write to advise the public on how…

by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 Phil Soltanoff has been coming to Williamstown every summer since 1993. Pursuing his interest in mixing and blending the arts in new and interesting ways to create new forms of theatre, in 1996 he created an ensemble performance entitled “To Whom It May Concern.”…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2001 I see an awful lot of traditional, realistic, proscenium-bound theatre, so when the opportunity arises to see something that promises a change, I go for it. While And God Created Great Whales was performed in conventional, fourth-wall style, that was the only thing conventional about…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 “Angels and ministers of grace defend us!” Hamlet cries when he first sees his father’s ghost in Act I, scene iv. When Robert Wilson, who came up with the visual concept for this 3-D digital opera, was touring in a one-man “Hamlet” he…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 1999 For those of you who haven’t already been to see for yourself – Mass MoCA lives!!! There is really a Museum there folks, and it is a sight to see. Just walking in the gates was an opening night for me – one…