Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Tom Griffin, the author of The Boys Next Door bills himself as an actor and a playwright. I have never seen him act, but based on this script he has a ways to go before he can call himself a playwright. It feels like Griffin…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Surplus children (the words make me shudder). They have always been a fact of life. In the animal kingdom “surplus” young are produced each year – the ones who will be taken by predators or disease or accident – in order to ensure…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 Don’t get me wrong, I like words. I use a lot of them every day. But I am mindful of the truth in the old saying “A picture’s worth a thousand words.” At its best, theatre is a seamless blend of words and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 As mid-winter entertainment, Bad Dates is very, very good. Elizabeth Aspenlieder is a talented comedienne. Theresa Rebeck is a literate and witty playwright. Behind the scenes Shakespeare & Company supports their efforts with a top-notch professional staff of designers and techies. But I knew all of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”– Morrie Schwartz And writing, reading, reciting, reenacting, gives humans the illusion that a relationship has some measure of “immortality” – look at the annual rituals of any organized religion. In the mid-1990’s portswriter Mitch Albom collaborated…
