Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 Shirley Valentine Bradshaw, age 46, is a chatty soul. She talks to walls and rocks and mostly to you, the audience member, who happen to be privy to her innermost thoughts in this one-woman play by Willy Russell. In the course of two…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 Despite everyone’s best efforts and intentions (and no one except Bialystock and Bloom get up one morning determined to stage a stinker) some shows work and some shows don’t. Back in September of 1999 the Theater Barn gave us an absolutely perfect and…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 After closing their 2004-2005 season with a blockbuster musical directed and choreographed by Tralen Doler, and so it seemed a sensible thing to open the 2005-2006 season with the same. I predict that this one will be as big a hit as the…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2005 “The springboard for my work is an image — a theatrical image — that can give birth to an entire play. For Tongue of a Bird, the image was of a woman in a 1920’s flight suit — leather jacket, helmet, goggles — hanging…