REVIEW: “Saturday Night” at the Weston Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2000 I drove to Weston to see “Saturday Night” because I could. There are not many places in the world where you can see five* Sondheim productions in the course of two months. Having seen the Barrington Stage production of â€śCompany”, and with plans to see the…

REVIEW: “Once On This Island” at the Weston Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 “Once on this Island” is probably the perfect family musical. It is brief (85 minutes), uplifting, and tuneful. And Weston Playhouse is giving it a nifty production that is simultaneously simple and full of surprises. Since its off-Broadway debut in 1990 “Once on…

REVIEW: “The Glass Menagerie” at the Weston Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September, 1998 Weston Playhouse is closing its 1998 season with a production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie”. This is a first for Weston – in all its 62 years of producing plays it has never mounted Williams’ 1945 classic. It may be a first…