Berkshire on Stage

by Gail M. Burns, May 2008 A man tells a story over and over so many times he becomes the story. In that way, he is immortal.– Daniel Wallace, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (1928 – 2002), born Lothar Berfelde, was a man with many stories.…

by Gail M. Burns, February 2007 Barrington Stage is serving up the perfect theatrical diversion for these cold and dreary February days – an hilarious and well-done staging of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed – a one-man show about a hopelessly harried reservations clerk at an impossibly chic Manhattan restaurant. Mode is credited…