REVIEW: The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall Presents “Present Laughter”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 What is love, tis not hereafter, Present mirth, hath present laughter: What’s to come, is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me sweet and twenty: Youth’s a stuff will not endure – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act ii, scene…

REVIEW: “Enchanted April” at the Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 In April of 1921 popular author Elizabeth von Arnim*, then 55, widowed from her first marriage, divorced from her second, and being wooed by a handsome young man 30 years her junior, rented a medieval castello at Portofino, Italy with two other women.…