REVIEW: Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” at C-R Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is both an attempt to present the beloved 1954 film musical “live on stage” – an effort that is doomed to failure because film and theatre are two completely different art forms – and an excuse to sing and dance to…

REVIEW: The Copake Theatre Company Presents Walking the dog Theater’s Production of “Cyrano”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 I confess that I have never seen or read any version of Cyrano de Bergerac before entering the Copake Grange on December 1, although that is hardly necessary since the basic plot of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play has entered the American vernacular. Everything from cartoons…