Reading of “The Gentle Villainy of Richard III” Comes to Turners Falls & Northampton

Real Live Theatre and the Shea Theater Arts Center present The Gentle Villainy of Richard III, Troubler of the Poor World’s Peace Adapted from the Shakespeare & Directed by Toby Vera Bercoviciwith Choreography by Annelise Nielsen An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard III which situates the story of power-hungry Richard…

REVIEW: “Richard III” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 You know you are in for it when the third person credited on the program is the Lamentation Director. Shakespeare charges King Richard III of England (lived 1452-1485, reigned 1483-1485) with the murder of most of the House of York on his way…

PREVIEW: The 1998 Fall Festival of Shakespeare

Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 For the past two months students at McCann, Mt. Greylock, and eight other western Massachusetts high schools have been hard at work preparing their Shakespearean productions for public performance. This is the week that McCann will offer local audiences “A Midsummer Night’s…