Join Mill City Productions for Their September Monthly Meeting

Hello Mill City Productions fans, We’ve just come off another successful Summer Cabaret and are already scheming about our next production. Hang with us as we navigate this sorta-not-really-post-pandemic artistic landscape. Please join us this Saturday, September 4th at 10am in Courtyard A at MASS MoCA in North Adams to…

Mill City Productions’ Summer Cabaret Returns in August

Mill City Productions’ Summer Cabaret returns next week! Join us Wednesday, August 4-Friday, August 6 for a one-act of fun and song. Performances will take place at the Parish Center of St. Elizabeth’s Church in North Adams at 8pm. Tickets will be available at the door and will be pay-what-you-can. We can’t wait…

REVIEW: “Assassins” at Mill City Productions

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…

REVIEW: “Rabbit Hole” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 David Lindsay-Abaire wrote Rabbit Hole after fellow playwright and former Juilliard teacher Marsha Norman (‘Night, Mother) told him to write a play about something that frightened him. Being a good playwright, he wrote about death, because there is nothing bigger and scarier in the entire…

REVIEW: “Pippin” at Mill City Productions

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…

REVIEW: “Baby with the Bathwater” at Mill City Productions

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…

REVIEW: “Honk!” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2005 The Mill City production of Honk! is everything that community theatre should be. Dozens of local folks, from the smallest to the tallest, are involved. Everyone has a chance to dress up and sing and dance for their friends and relations, and they all seem…