Karen Allen directs a brutal, breathtaking “Extremities” at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre
Extremities is “breathtakingly difficult to watch, and impossible not to,” says Roseann Cane.
REVIEW: “Candide” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 This is NOT the best of all possible Candides. If all of my colleagues have also led with this…
REVIEW: “Faith Healer” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 What is a fact in the context of autobiography? A fact is something that happened to me or…
REVIEW: “Educating Rita” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 As I wander through the theatrical landscape, I am always on the look-out for interesting juxtapositions of plays,…
REVIEW: “Two-Headed” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Julie Jensen’s 2000 drama Two-Headed is not an easy play. It is not easy to perform and it is not…
REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 For deeply personal reasons, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is a very difficult play for me to sit through. But…
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2006 People who know me will tell you that I am hardly Scrooge-like in my day-to-day life. But when…
REVIEW: “Via Dolorosa” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 For it would seem that we write not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve…