REVIEW: “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Barrington Stage Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 Harper Lee (1926- ) published only one novel, but in her case one is enough. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)…
REVIEW: “Clue: The Musical” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 It’s a board game! It’s a musical! Its Clue: The Musical! Which should be titled Eight Actors in Search…
Comments on Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at MASS MoCA
Comments by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 “We’re men, MANLY men, we’re men in tights. Yeah!We roam around the forest looking for fights.We’re men, we’re…
REVIEW: “Twelve Angry Jurors” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 It is late afternoon on a swelteringly hot summer day in 1957. Twelve jurors – four women and…
REVIEW: “Noises Off” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This has been a summer for farce. It started on Memorial Day weekend with The Ladies Man at Shakespeare &…
Comments on “Time and Motion Study” with “Mass”
Comments by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 “Time, like an ever rolling stream,bears all who breathe away;*they fly forgotten, as a dreamdies at the opening…
REVIEW: “The Canterville Ghost” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 When I was ten, my parents enrolled me in a summer course in theater games and improvisation. My…
REVIEW: “Murder at the Howard Johnson” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This is the second time this year that a playwright has had me right up until the last…