by Gail M. Burns Let me make it very clear that this issue surrounding the BTF production of “Ghosts” is the proverbial Tempest in a Teapot. This is just a summer stock production, and the only people this really affects are those who have purchased or are planning to purchase…
by Gail M. Burns Anders Cato’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is breathtaking. By that I mean that it literally takes your breath away. You forget to breathe. It is that good. And what a cast! David Adkins (Pastor Manders), Mia Dillon (Helene Alving), Jonathan Epstein (Engstrand), Tara Franklin (Regine…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 I had hoped to be making much ado about Bakerloo once again, but I am sad to report that their production of Much Ado About Nothing focuses more on the nothing. In fact, director Ryan Howe has too much a-doing on the stage, without the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause:… But that the dread of something after death,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 “Maybe I should rant and rave on a daily basis. I could take my car down to a quiet spot by the beach, roll up the windows, crank up the stereo, and scream at the windshield until my eyes pop out. There would…
Comments by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Let’s talk about place. As real estate agents say, its all about location, location, location. Where something happens is as important as when or how. Often events are very site specific, in other words they literally couldn’t have happened anywhere else. Location influences…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 On January 5, 2010, “my” soap opera, ABC’s All My Children, will celebrate 40 years on the air. And it is a fairly young soap, Guiding Light debuted on radio in 1937. Two members of the cast will celebrate their 40th anniversary on the show at…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Towards the end of Sam Shepard’s True West a mother returns home from an Alaskan cruise to find her two 30-something sons dead drunk and brawling all over her house, an activity in which they have been engaged for some time and so her furniture and…
