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 –…
REVIEW: “The Comedy of Errors” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2001. This earliest of Shakespeare’s plays is the 2001 offering of Shakespeare & Company’s Summer Performance Institute (SPI). You can count…
REVIEW: “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)” at Shakespeare & Company
Review by Gail M. Burns, May, 2001 To my great surprise, I discovered that I had written a review of this show when my younger son Brandon…
REVIEW: “The Woman in Black” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 Last year I found the Shakespeare & Company Halloween Benefit show to be great entertainment and very poor…
REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 Generally considered to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” is neither comedy nor tragedy, romance…
PREVIEW: Shakespeare & Young Company 1999
by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant, and live”– William Shakespeare, “King Richard II Talk about the bug biting!…
REVIEW: “Summer” at Shakespeare & Company
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…
REVIEW: “Private Eyes” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 It was such a huge surprise to walk in to Shakespeare & Company and discover a contemporary play…