Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2002 Quilters is a fascinating show based on real stories of 19th century pioneer women in the American west. Most of those women would have been quilters, and authors Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek uses quilting and quilt patterns as a way to organize these…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2001 “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller (1880-1968) I do not know the context in which Helen Keller made this remark, nor the age at which she made it, but there is no doubt that…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 “Now give three cheers. I?ll lead the way. Hoorah, hoorah, hooray!” – W.S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore Now give three cheers and one cheer more! That?s one cheer for each of the fine actresses and the extra for?well, I can?t decide whether it should be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 Like many people of my respectable middle age, I have a personal attachment to Jesus Christ Superstar born of it being a seminal piece of music from my early adolescence. And yet I had never seen the show staged. I was a fourteen-year-old atheist living…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 For reasons best left undisclosed, I have seen the 1982 film version of Victor, Victoria many more times than I should have, but I had not seen the “egregiously overlooked” 1995 stage version until today when I made my first trip of the season down…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2001 I see an awful lot of traditional, realistic, proscenium-bound theatre, so when the opportunity arises to see something that promises a change, I go for it. While And God Created Great Whales was performed in conventional, fourth-wall style, that was the only thing conventional about…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 It is only fair for me to confess that I am a Plaidhead. This marks the 8th production of Forever Plaid that I have seen. Don’t ask me why I get such a kick out of this silly and harmless little entertainment, but I do,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001. Did I tell everyone that A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the must-see show at Shakespeare & Company this season? I take that back. If you only have the time and money to see one grand Shakespearean production this summer, by all means make it The Tempest.…
