PREVIEW: “Apartment 3A” at The Manic Stage

Preview article by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 (This is a preview interview that I did with the director and cast of “Apartment 3A” on July 22. I will be seeing the show on July 31 and reviewing it for “The Transcript”) The Manic Stage sends out the message loud and clear…

PREVIEW: “Wet Paint” at the Manic Stage

Preview article by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 (With only two staged readings offered, I was unable to see and review “Wet Paint” for “The Transcript”. This is a preview interview that I did with the author, Eric Rudd.) Eric Rudd has lived among us here in northern Berkshire for…

REVIEW: “Dr. Holmes of Boston” at The Manic Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 1999 Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor of medicine, a popular humor writer, a founder of “The Atlantic” magazine, the owner of a home on Holmes Road in Pittsfield, and the father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Born in 1809, the…