Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November 2003. It has become an autumn tradition for Mt. Greylock Regional High School to mount a Shakespearean production, and for many years now those shows have been produced under the aegis of Shakespeare & Company as a part of their Fall Festival of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2003. King Lear is so very large and powerful a play that even writing about it is a daunting task. Performing it takes rare courage and commitment, and thank God Shakespeare & Company is up to it, because there is no way to do a…
Review by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 If you have never seen this complete laugh riot, buy tickets immediately. And even if, like me, you have seen it several times before, do likewise. Having a general idea of the lunacy to come did little to dampen my enjoyment of the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2003. I had a wonderful time at the opening night of Much Ado About Nothing. So did everyone else in attendance. I want to say this right up front because, being a critic, I am going to spend some time in this review criticizing things,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2002. I had occasion to speak to one of my high school English teachers last weekend, and I upbraided her for failing to introduce me to Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays. I remember distinctly taking a semester-long course on Shakespeare’s history plays in my junior…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2002 It has been a very long time since I have had to think seriously about King Henry V as an historical personage or as a play, and so it was a pleasant surprise at last night’s performance to be reminded that they were…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2002. My son Brandon and I walked down into the meadow behind the Founders’ Theatre on an impossibly beautiful Berkshire summer day and found that that “thing” out there was a magical and welcoming outdoor theatre. We could sit on beach chairs in the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2002. Last night I got to experience in person the famous old story about the night that legendary playwright and director George S. Kaufman stood in the back of the theatre watching the Marx Brothers performing one of the many plays he wrote for…
