Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2002 If you like the Lawrence Welk Show, then you will just love My Way, a lightweight entertainment billed as a “tribute to Frank Sinatra” currently running at the Theater Barn. Basically this is a ninety minute concert of 56 Sinatra standards, strung together by…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2002 If you take a close look at Mae West (1893-1980), you will see that she is nothing that you expect her to be. She wasn’t really blonde, she wasn’t really busty, and she wasn’t really curvy (heavy corset use there). She was kind…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2002 I think it takes real chutzpah to stage Assassins less than a year after 9/11. In a summer season where many area theatres are busily waving the flag, scheduling this daring, edgy musical which explores the lives and possible motives of nine people who attempted…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2002 Nuns wearing wimplesAnd captains with whistlesBrave young MariaAnd Nazis who bristleEdelweiss, goatherds,And children who singThese are a few of my favorite things— with apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II Although I entered the Mac-Haydn the other night with my curmudgeonly “I Hate Rodgers &…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2002. This is superb theatre. One fine actress, Annette Miller, one great playwright, William Gibson, one inspired director, Daniel Gidron, and an exciting, true story. The only technological help they receive is an excellent sound design by Mark Huang. Purchase one of the ninety-nine…
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…
