REVIEW: “Dancing with the Czar” at Ventfort Hall

“In a thousand years man will sigh just the same, ‘Ah, how hard life is,’ and yet just as now he will be afraid of death and not want it.”– Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters, translated by Constance Garnett Ventfort Hall, as it is struggling to become fully refurbished and functional…

REVIEW: “No Background Music” at Shakespeare & Company

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2006 I wanted to be sure to separate my reviews of Martha Mitchell Calling and No Background Music because I knew from the get-go that even though they are being performed as a double bill, they would be very different shows. I was right. Martha Mitchell Calling is a play, No…