Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 Last year I found the Shakespeare & Company Halloween Benefit show to be great entertainment and very poor theatre. This year I found it to be sporadically great theatre, and still a good Halloween thrill besides. The evening really begins when you get…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 This has been billed as the summer of “Summer”. Edith Wharton’s 1916 novella “Summer” has been adapted for the stage by Dennis Krausnick, a leading adaptor of Wharton’s works, and is playing now through October 17 at Shakespeare & Company’s Stables Theatre on…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1998 Shakespeare & Company does many things well, but the two things it must do well to survive are stage Shakespeare and adapt Edith Wharton to the stage. In “Glimpses of the Moon” they have done the latter very well, but Edith Wharton, no…