REVIEW: “Eleanor: Her Secret Journey” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 I don’t know too much about Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), other than she was an peculiar looking woman married to one president (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)) and related to another (Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, was her uncle), who was greatly admired for her own work…

REVIEW: “Morning’s at Seven” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 Paul Osborn (1901-1988) originally set Morning’s at Seven in the year it was written – 1939 – but director Vivian Matalon asked his permission to shift it to 1922 for his Tony Award-winning 1980 Broadway production, and now that is the official setting for this…