Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2005 I was so excited to see Pal Joey on the Ghent Playhouse schedule this season. This 1940 Rodgers and Hart classic is seldom produced – everyone sings the songs but no one stages the show. I have seen bits of the 1952 film version starring…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2005 I am not much of a mystery buff, but when I was about ten years old I confess to having fallen hard for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Conan Doyle was a great yarn-spinner, and Holmes, his greatest literary creation, has…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2005 This was at least the fourth production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown that I have seen. As a child I saw the original off-Broadway production with Gary Burghoff (later “Radar” on M*A*S*H*), Reva Rose, and Skip and Bill Hinnant. As a senior in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2005 While Jeffrey Hatcher’s Three Viewings is certainly excellent theatre, it is not exactly a play. Set in a Pittsburgh funeral home, it consists of three monologues by characters who really don’t know each other and who are each mourning the passing of different people. Having…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2005 If you are looking for high art, go back to my front page and make your selection of award-winning shows running the in Capital District. If you want to have fun, go see Meshuggah-Nuns at Cohoes Music Hall. The premise this time around, and it…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2005 “That’s what it’s all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on — getting off. Getting the sardines on — getting the sardines off. That’s farce. That’s the theater. That’s life.” – Michael Frayn, Noises Off That pretty much sums it up. There is a whole…
