REVIEW: “Toad of Toad Hall” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Every year I concoct a marathon Saturday of theatre in Lenox. This enables me to see the two…
REVIEW: “The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “We believe that the creative impulse is essential to the human soul, and that the Arts are the…
Comments on Tina Packer in “Shirley Valentine” at Shakespeare & Company
by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “This is the transformative power of theatre, based on humanity’s ever-present need to tell personal stories of survival and…
REVIEW: “Romeo and Juliet” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” – Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene iii Romeo does not…
REVIEW: “Bad Dates” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 As mid-winter entertainment, Bad Dates is very, very good. Elizabeth Aspenlieder is a talented comedienne. Theresa Rebeck is a literate and…
REVIEW: “The Canterville Ghost” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 When I was ten, my parents enrolled me in a summer course in theater games and improvisation. My…
REVIEW: “The Goatwoman of Corvis County” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “I am so full of violence.” That is one of the first things we hear Charlotte Clark (Keira…
REVIEW: “Othello” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 As I watched the current production of Othello at Shakespeare & Company, I was struck by what a clean play…