Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 I am a great fan of Blythe Danner, and so I watched her as she made her way down the aisle to her seats last night, on the arm of her husband Bruce Paltrow. The nervousness was evident on their faces. Could their…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 1999 You know you are in for it when the third person credited on the program is the Lamentation Director. Shakespeare charges King Richard III of England (lived 1452-1485, reigned 1483-1485) with the murder of most of the House of York on his way…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 Roger Rees’ production of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” will make people fall in love with the theatre. That is a very very dangerous thing to do – parents are sobbing into their swiss-processed decaffeinated coffee this morning, rueing the day they…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 1999 Let me make this very, very clear. For 21 years now Shakespeare & Company has been mounting the Bard’s work at The Mount in Lenox. This year they are doing “as You Like It” along with three other Shakespeare plays. This production is…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 This sounds like a really good idea. Get seven award-winning modern playwrights to each write a play based on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and stage them all in one evening. Shakespeare is the man of the hour, and how can you go wrong…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 If you love Shakespeare then this is your lucky month! The Manic Stage began the onslaught, opening “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” last Thursday. Williamstheatre, Mt. Greylock, and McCann weigh in this week with productions of “Twelfth Night”, “Hamlet”, and another “Midsummer” respectively later…
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November, 1998 For the past two months students at McCann, Mt. Greylock, and eight other western Massachusetts high schools have been hard at work preparing their Shakespearean productions for public performance. This is the week that McCann will offer local audiences “A Midsummer Night’s…
