Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 “…your WASP couple can get married, go on their honeymoon, come home, pursue careers, have children, and get divorced in less time than it takes for a non-WASP couple to get to the part of the [wedding] reception where everyone drinks Champagne from…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 At last! A play that I don’t have to interpret at length for you! Veronica’s Room is a 1973 psychological thriller by Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, and Deathtrap. It is not his masterwork, but for those who enjoy an impending sense of doom,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Something is missing here, and my instinct is that the problem lies in the script, but from what I can gather Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies has been a big success in regional and community theatres around the world since it premiered at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 2004. Ludwig…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 “To: Father Brown, Mr. Philip Trent, Mr. Max Carrados, Dr. Reginald Fortune, Mr. Roger Sheringham, Mr. Albert Campion, Mr. Nigel Strangeways, Lord Peter Wimsey, Dr. Gideon Fell, Monsieur Hercule Poirot, and all their omniscient, eccentric, amateur gentlemen colleagues, this play is dedicated with…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 “To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and by a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 As I was leaving the Mac-Haydn after seeing their first public performance of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast I observed a child of about seven or eight leaping straight up and down in great glee exclaiming “I just loved that show! It was so exciting!”…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 “Perhaps the secret to Simon’s success is his ability…to show us — between, in, and around the funny lines — the pain, aspiration, and sheer panic behind all those unforgettable characters.” – from the Kennedy Center Honors Biography of Neil Simon Batten down…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 This is NOT the best of all possible Candides. If all of my colleagues have also led with this all-too-obvious remark, I apologize, but I make it a policy not to read any other reviews before I write my own, and this is the…
