Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2005 While Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings is certainly excellent theatre, it is not exactly a play. Set in a Pittsburgh funeral home, it consists of three monologues by characters who really don’t know each other and who are each mourning the passing of different people. Having…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Twenty-two years ago, when John Pielmeier’s three-woman play Agnes of God opened on Broadway, it was a sensation. It had a modest six month run, not bad for a new, non-musical production, and garnered two Tony nominations for Geraldine Page, who played Mother Superior Miriam…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2000 One of the really great things about being a theatre critic is that you get to see all the shows. And one of the really awful things about being a theatre critic is that you have to see all the shows. No one…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1999 Students from McCann and Mt. Greylock have given up their afternoons and evenings for the past two months to rehearse the 90 minute versions of Shakespeare that they will be presenting at Shakespeare & Company’s 11th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare. They…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 1999 I could rant and rave and hurt a lot of people’s feelings. Or I could keep sum this up in one sentence: This is an amateur production of “Side by Side by Sondheim”. That is really all you need to know. If you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “These are the mountains that give us such beauty,There are the meadows that give us such summer.”– Joan Vail Thorne When Margaret Lattimore and Michael Chioldi sang these words last night my eyes filled with tears. What a lovely, moving tribute to our…
Interview by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 If you are looking for a night on the town this weekend, head to the Crowne Plaza in Pittsfield to hear Marni Nixon: The Voice of Hollywood. Who’s Marni Nixon and how can she be the voice of Hollywood if I’ve never heard…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Once again I offer my disclaimer that I am not an expert on opera. I can only view and review it from a theatrical point of view, not a musical one. Musically I get as far as everyone sang on key and the…
