REVIEW: “42nd Street” at the Cohoes Music Hall

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 “Hear the beat of dancing feet…” – Al Dubin The joint is literally jumping in Cohoes as Tralen Doler filled has once again filled the Music Hall with a big, exuberant dance extravaganza, this time a tap-happy staging of 42nd Street. I could literally…

REVIEW: The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall Presents “Heartbreak House”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 [The British public] just stared [at Anton Chekhov’s plays] and said, ‘How Russian!’ They did not strike me in that way. Just as Ibsen’s intensely Norwegian plays exactly fitted every middle and professional class suburb in Europe, these intensely Russian plays fitted all…

REVIEW: “Living With It” at Main Street Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 Back in 2003, I opened my review of the one-man show Fully Committed at the Theater Barn with the following paragraph: Watching an actor perform a one-person show is like watching an athlete, let’s say Lance Armstrong competing in the Tour de France. Can he…