REVIEW: The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall Presents “Heartbreak House”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 [The British public] just stared [at Anton Chekhov’s plays] and said, ‘How Russian!’ They did not strike me…
REVIEW: “Living With It” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2008 Back in 2003, I opened my review of the one-man show Fully Committed at the Theater Barn with the following…
REVIEW: “Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted” at Barrington Stage Company
by Gail M. Burns, February 2008 When Julianne Boyd announced in December that Barrington Stage would be presenting Trumbo in February, I had a “wait, wait, don’t…
REVIEW: “Nine Months” at the Copake Theatre Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2008 A one-woman musical about the “joys” of pregnancy written by two men?? This I had to see. And…
REVIEW: “Macbeth” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2008 Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hellThat my keen knife see not the wound…
REVIEW: “La Cage Aux Folles” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2008 This is the best production of La Cage Aux Folles in the world. Well, okay, somewhere on this planet there…
REVIEW: “Les Misérables” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2008 “All the reviews are reactionary and more or less hostile.”– Victor-Marie Hugo, speaking of the critical reaction to…