Fact Checking Journalist Dorothy Thompson in “Cassandra Speaks” – A Burns & Cane Review
Burns & Cane loved actor Tod Randolph and the play, but debate some assertions in the script. Read More…
“Cassandra Speaks” – Tod Randolph Shines as WWII Journalist Dorothy Thompson
A great story makes for great theatre at Shakespeare & Company. Read More…
REVIEW: “Hamlet” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 In 2006, when this production of Hamlet, directed by Eleanor Holdridge and starring Jason Asprey with his real-life mother…
REVIEW: “Golda’s Balcony” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Three thousand years ago Joshua ‘fit the battle of Jericho,’ and ever since Jews, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks,…
REVIEW: “Pinter’s Mirror: A Slight Ache, Family Voices, and Victoria Station” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “Pinter pause Pinter pause Pinter pause” – Eric Tucker in his poem/director’s note for Pinter’s Mirror Can you believe…
REVIEW: “All’s Well That Ends Well” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 The morning after I saw Tina Packer’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well, I was sorting through my…
REVIEW: “The Ladies Man” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Last year, when Shakespeare & Company opened with a production of Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing, many of my colleagues…
REVIEW: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001. After all of the big hype – posters, billboards, that ubiquitous photo of Titania caressing an ass –…