REVIEW: “Reunion” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 If you take Reunion at face value as staged musical chronicle of the years Abraham Lincoln was president, it works…
REVIEW: “Saturday Night Liv: Show #1” at the Spencertown Academy
by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 Saturday Night Liv is a charming homespun vaudeville, assembled by the Columbia Arts Team, aka Liv Cummins, Sandy McKnight, and Christina Dellea. After…
REVIEW: “Visiting Mr. Green” at Town Players of Pittsfield
Visiting Mr. Green has come home to the Berkshires.Jeff Baron’s two-man play received its world premiere at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in the summer of 1996 with Eli…
REVIEW: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at C-R Productions
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 You would never, ever know that this production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was…
REVIEW: “Grace and Glorie” at the Copake Theatre Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 If you like your end-of-life stories filtered through a homey Hallmark haze, then you will love Tom Ziegler’s Grace…
REVIEW: “The Dumbwaiter” and “The Problem” at Town Players of Pittsfield
by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 Many, many years ago, I purchased tickets to a rare U.S. performance by a British youth theatre troupe. I…
REVIEW: “Jekyll and Hyde” at C-R Productions
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 C-R Productions has mounted another rip-snorting musical at the Cohoes Music Hall, this time Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde, a…
REVIEW: “Tintypes” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Tintypes is a pleasant little revue of music from the turn of the 20th century. If you have only…