TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero, is proud to present THE REMBRANDT by Jessica Dickey, directed by Maria Mileaf, running April 21 – May 14, 2023. THE REMBRANDT opens in a modern-day art museum, where three individuals yearn to experience firsthand the wonder and glory of Rembrandt’s work. When a museum guard decides to touch…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Towards the end of Sam Shepard’s True West a mother returns home from an Alaskan cruise to find her two 30-something sons dead drunk and brawling all over her house, an activity in which they have been engaged for some time and so her furniture and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 “The stately homes of England tho’ rather in the lurch,Provide a lot of chances for psychical researchThere’s a ghost of a crazy younger son,Who murder’d in thirteen fifty one,An extremely rowdy nun (who resented it),And people who come to callMeet her in the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005 Now that I have sufficiently recovered from my rant about the poor design of the Main Stage Theatre in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance in which the Williamstown Theatre Festival is presenting Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan I can turn my attentions to reviewing the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Roger Rees’ production of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” will make people fall in love with the theatre. That is a very very dangerous thing to do – parents are sobbing into their swiss-processed decaffeinated coffee this morning, rueing the day they…
