Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 Since its wildly successful off-Broadway run in 1998 and equally successful film version, both starring author John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has become a cult classic. People find it life-changing and the score and lyrics by Stephen Trask is venerated. Since Trask…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1914 play Pygmalion and Gabriel Pascal’s 1938 film of the same, is often called the perfect musical. While remaining extremely faithful to its roots, the music and dance seem to spring effortless from the script. In this…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 The Smell of the Kill by Michele Lowe is a weird, funny, disturbing little play of which I am inordinately fond. It is also a tricky one to write about since it is so short and since surprise is a key element in an…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 Usually, I am fairly well in tune with the collective unconscious, but I fail to understand why for millennia humankind has seen the need to call up images of death and terror at the same time of year that the days are getting…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 I spent a great deal of time the past week grumbling about murder mystery plays. I am not much of a mystery fan, and I will never understand the American value system that categorizes murder as “wholesome entertainment”, but I find mysteries in…
