Next MCP Asides to Discuss Rupert Holmes’ “Accomplice”

Hello Mill City Productions fans, We had a great time discussing John Cariani’s Almost, Maine at our July meeting in the courtyard at MASS MoCA. If you missed us, not to worry, another MCP Asides is coming up soon! Save the date: The next Asides will be on Thursday, September 28 from…

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…