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…
REVIEW: “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”
by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 Without Gail Nelson and Billie Holiday there would be no Barrington Stage. In the summer of 1995 Julianne Boyd,…
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival’
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December, 2007 But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas Time…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable,…
REVIEW: Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” at C-R Productions
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is both an attempt to present the beloved 1954 film musical “live on stage” – an…
COMMENTS: Heather Raffo’s “9 Parts of Desire” at MASS MoCA
Comments by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 Okay, before you read what I have to say, you must click HERE and read what creator and performer Heather Raffo has…
REVIEW: “Rabbit Hole” at Mill City Productions
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 David Lindsay-Abaire wrote Rabbit Hole after fellow playwright and former Juilliard teacher Marsha Norman (‘Night, Mother) told him to write…