Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Parallel Lives at the Theater Barn is an evening of sketch comedy performed by two very talented comediennes – Katherine Pecevich and Eleni Delopoulos. It was originally performed by its creators Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney as The Kathy and Mo Show, an Obie Award-winning off-Broadway smash in the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 “If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.”– Andy Rooney Have you ever owned a dog? If so, you must go see Sylvia, playwright A.R. Gurney’s homage to his own beloved pet. It is a poignant…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Twenty-two years ago, when John Pielmeier’s three-woman play Agnes of God opened on Broadway, it was a sensation. It had a modest six month run, not bad for a new, non-musical production, and garnered two Tony nominations for Geraldine Page, who played Mother Superior Miriam…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 It is no wonder that I have ended up as a theatre geek when one of my earliest memories is of my father holding me in his arms and dancing me about while singing I Feel Pretty. I hasten to explain that he was…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2004 Proof opened in New York City in 2001, first off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club from whence it moved to the Walter Kerr Theatre a few months later. The second full-length play by a heretofore relatively unknown playwright, David Auburn, it went on to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I went to the theatre expecting a kind of rock ‘em sock ‘em robots production and I was not disappointed. The Comedy of Errors is not Shakespeare’s best play, but mercifully it is his shortest. Two hours of frantic slapstick performed by talented folks wearing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I went back to see As You Like It a second time on August 1 (read my original review HERE) because the original Rosalind, Sarah Rafferty, had departed for work on an independent film and a new actress, Christine Marie Brown, has taken her place…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 Grimy and lewd, disturbing and surreal, the Theater Barn has pulled out all the stops to present a chilling and entertaining production of Kander and Ebb’s 1966 masterpiece Cabaret. Not a show for the faint of heart, Cabaret boldly blends music and theatre to bring the…
