by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 A lot of attention has been paid recently to the blossoming professional theatre scene in Berkshire County and its environs. We are indeed blessed with a great deal of excellent theatre, but we mustn’t become so star struck that we ignore the existence of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2006 You place an object on the table and ask me to identify it. “That’s an apple,” I say, because my five senses tell me that it looks, feels, smells, tastes, and sounds like what I have been taught to call an apple. Even…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2000 One of the really great things about being a theatre critic is that you get to see all the shows. And one of the really awful things about being a theatre critic is that you have to see all the shows. No one…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 1999 I could rant and rave and hurt a lot of people’s feelings. Or I could keep sum this up in one sentence: This is an amateur production of “Side by Side by Sondheim”. That is really all you need to know. If you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 1999 I officially declare the 1999 Berkshire Theatre Season open with the Town Players production of Arthur Miller’s “A View From the Bridge”. I declare this so that I can add this production to my list of potential “best shows of the season” when…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 1999 At one point in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” author Steve Martin,(yes, that Steve Martin) has a minor character admonish Picasso and Einstein saying something to the effect of, “You must watch your words very carefully, or they will turn on you like…
