Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2009 “If I am right Thy grace impart still in the right to stay. If I am wrong Oh, teach my heart to find the better way.”– Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Founder of the Sisters of Charity Doubt is a small play (90 minutes…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 My invitation to my companion at Seascape read as follows: “Would you like to come with me to Hubbard Hall on Friday night to see Doug Ryan play a giant lizard?” This is how you can tell your real friends from the phonies. The ones…
Comments by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 Prologue It is a kind of talent in itself to be an audience…Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.– Ann Patchett On the second…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 Oh dear sisters, our life is not yet at an end. Let us live. The music is so gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering…– Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy All My Sons was his first commercial success. The next play of his staged was Death of a Salesman. Then he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The “un-American” ideas that Miller presented in these two plays, and many others,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 The nicest part [of being in hiding] is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings, otherwise I’d absolutely suffocate.– Anne Frank, March 16, 1944 There is no other word but beautiful for NYSTI’s production of Yours, Anne, under the direction of Michael…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 This is the third production of the stage musical of The Full Monty that I have seen – the second I have reviewed – and until I saw this mounting at the Cohoes Musical Hall I have been a staunch defender of the show as…
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…
