Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 If you like your end-of-life stories filtered through a homey Hallmark haze, then you will love Tom Ziegler’s Grace and Glorie now being given a charmingly honest production at the Copake Theatre Company. It is not surprising to learn that Hallmark developed Grace and Glorie as a…
by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 Many, many years ago, I purchased tickets to a rare U.S. performance by a British youth theatre troupe. I was very excited to see this group perform. The audience was seated on bleachers on either side of the basketball court where the action took…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 C-R Productions has mounted another rip-snorting musical at the Cohoes Music Hall, this time Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde, a huge hunk of faux-Victorian balderdash if there ever was one, but in this fast-paced and engaging presentation directed by Jim Charles the foolishness is overshadowed…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Tintypes is a pleasant little revue of music from the turn of the 20th century. If you have only a passing knowledge of those fascinating decades of American history between the Civil War and World War I, this show will strike you as a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Director Kevin McGuire writes in his Director’s Notes that he found working on this production of Molière’s 1668 comedy The Miser to be the “perfect antidote to winter.” Indeed, in this hibernal season, which has made up for in ferocity what it lacked in timing,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Something has gone horribly wrong with the Mill City Productions staging of Christopher Durang’s 1983 dark comedy Baby With The Bathwater. It’s not funny, and when a show this dark fails to provoke laughter it instead provokes gasps of horror, because there technically is nothing…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 I tried to explain American Soup to someone the other day and ended up saying, “Well, at the back of the stage Andy Warhol is in purgatory, on the front we watch 50 years in the lives of this Italian-American family who run a restaurant…
by Gail M. Burns, February 2007 Barrington Stage is serving up the perfect theatrical diversion for these cold and dreary February days – an hilarious and well-done staging of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed – a one-man show about a hopelessly harried reservations clerk at an impossibly chic Manhattan restaurant. Mode is credited…
