Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 If I were the Artistic Director of the WTF, and I knew that finances were tight this season and I would have to cut down sharply on the number of shows I could present, I would choose those shows very carefully. Ticket sales…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2008 Before I saw Not Waving, I had already heard two opinions. One person liked the acting and not the script, and the other person loved the script and the acting and had a wonderful time. Having seen it, I agree with the latter, not…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2008 “He’s dying, but he’s not dead yet,” Malcolm King observes about his father William, who is suffering from Multiple Sclerosis. Malcolm has just completed a degree in environmental science and economics from UConn and has been accepted to graduate school and met a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2008 George Bernard Shaw grouped his earliest published plays into volumes entitled Pleasant and Unpleasant. Using that system, Ronan Noone’s The Atheist, currently on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is decidedly an Unpleasant Play. An Unpleasant Play is not a Bad Play,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 Richard Burton (1925-1984) was born in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, the 12th of 13 children of a coalminer. Burton showed a talent for the literary arts in elementary school, and an inspirational teacher took him under his wing and prepared him for the theatrical career…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 I suppose, if the WTF is to continue its tradition as a leading interpreter of Tennessee Williams, that eventually they would have to do “Camino Real”. In fact this is not the first time they have dragged Williams’ incoherent 1953 flop on to…
