Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 1999 Watching the Drury Drama Team’s production of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play “The Children’s Hour” was a great learning experience for me. Usually educational theatre has a greater impact on the students than on the audience, but I found my eyes opened to a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 Under new management, the former Manic Stage has reached back to its roots to reinvent itself as what it always ought to have been. A venue for small cast shows utilizing the best of local talent. Trying to cram Shakespeare into that narrow…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 The 1999 theatre season has been bracketed by productions of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”. I declared the season open in late May when Town Players mounted a superb production at BCC. Now Oldcastle weighs in with its production a week after summer has officially…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 Line up the usual suspects. A group of supernatural “experts” closeted in the PNA trying to raise the “troubled spirit that walks these halls”. Ouija boards, mystical crystals, seances. The light goes out – someone screams. Cue the buckets of stage blood. Whodunnit?…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 “Death and the Maiden” is an intense and intimate play, and so I wondered why Williamstheatre chose to perform it on the MainStage at the AMT. I have never been to a college production that has packed that house, and the idea of…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 Last year I found the Shakespeare & Company Halloween Benefit show to be great entertainment and very poor theatre. This year I found it to be sporadically great theatre, and still a good Halloween thrill besides. The evening really begins when you get…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 I hate driving in cities. I grew up in New York City and so I know not only the hazards of vehicular traffic in a concrete jungle, but I know how much faster it is to walk or take the subway. Whenever I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 This is an amazing play – a play about everything and nothing, about the daily grind and the larger cosmic issues, about family and government and religion and floods and glaciers and the extinction of the dinosaurs… When it first appeared on the…
