Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 ARGAN: Your Molière is a fine impertinent fellow with his comedies! I think it mightily pleasant of him to go and take off honest people like the doctors. BÉRALDE: It is not the doctors themselves that he takes off, but the absurdity of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 As we left Academy Hall after seeing the Bakerloo Theatre Project’s current production of Macbeth, my companion said to me: “I was amazed by how much I didn’t miss what wasn’t there!” What she was referring to was the genius director William Addis, his…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 What do you get when you put a young British sculptor, his ditsy blonde fiancée, his sultry brunette mistress, the blonde’s spit-and-polish military father, two neighbors – a flamboyantly gay antiques dealer and a tee totaling spinster – a deaf multi-millionaire art dealer, and…
by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 Calvin Berger is the Brady Bunch of musical comedy. I was twelve when Brady Bunch first came on the air. In real life I am a year young than Maureen McCormick (Marcia) and a year older than Eve Plumb (Jan). While I was never fooled into thinking the show…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Julie Jensen’s 2000 drama Two-Headed is not an easy play. It is not easy to perform and it is not easy to watch, but luckily the BTF has cast two of this region’s finest actresses – Corinna May and Diane Prusha – and the end…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to be. And I enjoyed it thoroughly. In an interview with a member of the BTF PR staff, playwright Dale Wasserman noted that he had only…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 The Capitol Steps have a decades-long national reputation for biting, hilarious political satire. I have wanted to see them live and in person for a long time, pondering each time I listed a regional appearance on GailSez.com whether I had the time and gas…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 Being my curmudgeonly self, I was less than thrilled with the announcement that the Mac-Haydn would bring me “Christmas in July” with a production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. It is my opinion that we get way too much Chistmas when it IS Christmas,…
