REVIEW: “The Tempest” at Bakerloo Theatre Project
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 After forty years of reading and seeing Shakespeare, I had finally decided that “The Tempest” was my favorite…
REVIEW: “Phantom” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 This is NOT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. I mean that both ways – it isn’t the…
REVIEW: “Hairspray” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 THE PROLOGUE I feel like Emily Litella. You remember, that character Gilda Radner used to do on the…
REVIEW: “Bedroom Farce” at Oldcastle Theatre Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 Alan Ayckbourn is a very popular playwright. Oldcastle has an excellent track record of producing his works. Their…
REVIEW: “The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I confess that I don’t quite understand the current kiddy mania for all things piratical. But be that…
REVIEW: “The Musical of Musicals: The Musical” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 If you are a fan of the American musical theatre (and the work of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber)…
REVIEW: “The Atheist” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2008 George Bernard Shaw grouped his earliest published plays into volumes entitled Pleasant and Unpleasant. Using that system, Ronan…
REVIEW: “Beyond Therapy” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2008 Ah, the American mental health system. My most recent brush with it entailed a therapist who demanded that…