REVIEW: “ART” at The Theater Barn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2004 Here’s the good news and the bad news, all in one sentence. The Theater Barn opened its 2004 season with a polished production of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-award winning play ART. The good news is that The Theater Barn is back for a 21st season…

REVIEW: “Gypsy” at The Mac-Haydn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 Gypsy is a great big, old-fashioned musical. Big is the operative word here. It calls for a big cast and endless scenery and costume changes as it spans a couple of decades and tries to tell the interlocking stories of several people’s lives. Someone…

REVIEW: “The Pirates of Penzance” at The Mac-Haydn

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 You must excuse me because I know way too much about The Pirates of Penzance. I have known every note of the score since I was eleven years old and appeared in the policeman’s chorus as a pathetically adolescent member of the constabulary. Tarantara.…

REVIEW: “Living With Lady Macbeth”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 Living with Lady Macbeth is the sort of play written for young actors to perform for an audience of their peers. And, as luck would have it, this is the play the Drury Drama Team has selected to take to the 11th Annual International Thespian Festival in Lincoln,…