by Jana Lillie Friday night, I went to the Dorset Theatre Festival see the preview of Misery, the play by William Goldman, based on the book of the same name by Stephen King. Executive Director Will Rucker, informed us that this would be the first full run-through of the play.…
(Dorset, VT– JUNE 17, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival will open the 46th Season of professional summer theatre at the Dorset Playhouse with William Goldman’s edge-of-your-seat adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Misery, which inspired the 1990 Oscar-winning film, directed by Jackson Gay. Performances are scheduled to begin Friday, June 23 at 7:30 PM. All performances take…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 As I watched the current production of Othello at Shakespeare & Company, I was struck by what a clean play it is. I don’t mean that it isn’t bawdy, because it is very much so, and it certainly racks up a pile of dead bodies…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Last year, when Shakespeare & Company opened with a production of Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing, many of my colleagues proclaimed it a “laugh riot.” I didn’t, because it wasn’t. It was certainly good fun, but it was not hilarious. But this year’s season opener, The…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 “War is a scienceWith rules to be appliedWhich good soldiers appreciateRecall and recapitulateBefore they go to decimateThe other side.”– Stephen Schwartz Last summer as I was driving around to many theatres, I listened to tapes of a BCC radio adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and…
by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005. Just when you thought we were well north of hurricane alley, Hurricane Kate makes landfall at the Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, where Daniela Varon and her energetic cast of 18 are presenting a relentlessly lively production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. To say…
