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…
REVIEW: “A Dream Play” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2001 As a critic and student of the theatre, I applaud the Berkshire Theatre Festival for their bold choice…
REVIEW: “This is Our Youth” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 The first thing the BTF needs to do is change the title of this play. It is not…
REVIEW: “Starr’s Last Tape” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them…