Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 To my great surprise, I got to see Dissonance on the Nikos Stage at the WTF. And I liked it very much. Coincidentally, exactly a week earlier my younger son had turned to me and asked “What does dissonance mean?” And even though I know…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2007 “I dance ’til the people applaud. The art’s thrown in extra.”– a vaudeville hoofer I am always attracted to the peculiar. Tell me that you’ve never seen anything quite like it, and I’m there. Partly this has to do with spending my formative…
Posted September, 2006 To the Editor: Let’s be honest here. The Williamstown Theatre Festival has been all about itself and not about its audience for years. It is a mere coincidence that Roger Rees’ term at the helm commenced as the WTF moved in the ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, the most…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005 Now that I have sufficiently recovered from my rant about the poor design of the Main Stage Theatre in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance in which the Williamstown Theatre Festival is presenting Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan I can turn my attentions to reviewing the…
Posted July 11, 2005 “We cannot read or hear if we are bored and hostile and confused.” – Mary Caroline Richards I am not sure that I can actually tell you that I saw Lady Windermere’s Fan at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. I was in the same room where the show was being…
Commented upon by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 (This is not so much a review as a musing on this play, which has meant a lot to me in my life.) The last time I saw Tom Stoppard’s Travesties (which was also the first time) was at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in…
by Gail M. Burns, August 2003 Phil Soltanoff has been coming to Williamstown every summer since 1993. Pursuing his interest in mixing and blending the arts in new and interesting ways to create new forms of theatre, in 1996 he created an ensemble performance entitled “To Whom It May Concern.”…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 The third MainStage production of the season, Dylan Thomas’ only work for the stage Under Milkwood is up and running at the WTF. If you have already seen it, or if you are gazing in wonder at the photos which accompany this article, you may be…
