Gail Burns has been waiting for a long time for a Merchant of Venice worthy of her bucket list. Does Tina Packer’s new staging in Lenox redeem this controversial play? Read on…
Burns and Cane review one of Shakespeare’s epic stories, told simply and with great emphasis on the language and history.
Great acting in a sometimes funny, sometimes painful play about life in the Irish countryside.
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…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 “We believe that the creative impulse is essential to the human soul, and that the Arts are the…
by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “This is the transformative power of theatre, based on humanity’s ever-present need to tell personal stories of survival and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 “Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” – Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene iii Romeo does not…
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…
