Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 “For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, scene iii I didn’t want to go and see this production of Romeo and Juliet at Main Street Stage because the company had made…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2006 Click HERE to read the letter I received from director David Lane. I do not understand this play. I think it is beautiful, I think it is well acted, and I think it is very funny, but I do not understand it. That is very…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2006 Okay, this will sound really dumb, but all I could think as I watched Looking for Elizabeth was: “This sounds scripted.” Now I am fully aware that everything I review is scripted, so what made this play specifically sound that way? Well, let’s start at…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2004 The set is lovely. Three accomplished actors whose work I have enjoyed in the past tread the boards. And yet there is something lackluster about this first produced play for Williamstown playwright Chris Newbound. My guess is that Morning, Noon, and Night is still a…
Previewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2004 Beginning April 29, Main Street Stage is presenting a new work by Williamstown playwright Christopher Newbound entitled Morning, Noon, and Night. Newbound first began to develop the work in 2003 while taking a class at Inkberry entitled “The Art of the One-Act Play” taught…
Previewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2003 The days are growing shorter and the frost is on the pumpkin. Are you ready for a rattling good evening of murder and mystery? Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from October 23 through November 15, the Main Street Stage is presenting The Real Inspector Hound by…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 We all know the horror of losing our “good name”. For whatever it is worth, whatever minor sins we may commit as we stumble through this life, most of us value our reputation, our “name”, very highly indeed. Women are perhaps easier about…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1999 “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly and no…
