Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 In case you’re new to GailSez, let it be known that Gail and Brandon (my younger son) are huge Plaid Heads. We’ve lost count, but we have seen more than a dozen productions in eight states. I famously booked the family in to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I highly recommend the charming little production of The Mousetrap currently running at The Theater Barn. Director Tony Capone skillfully guides a talented cast through and around Abe Phelps’ evocative set as Agatha Christie’s script fills the stage with more floppin’ fresh Red Herrings than…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 Same Time, Next Year is the first of the four shows the Theater Barn will present during their 25th anniversary season that were selected based on audience surveys. Same Time… is a popular show all over the world, but I would bet that many of the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 I am a pretty smart cookie. Not too much escapes me, particularly when I am sitting in the theatre, but for the life of me I cannot tell you the central joke of “How the Other Half Loves.” I like Alan Ayckbourn. I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2007 Like Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the show that preceded it on the Theater Barn schedule, Almost, Maine has taken the regional theatre world by storm. EVERYONE has just done it, is doing it, or will do it in the coming months. And like Six Dance…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2007 Six Dance Lesson in Six Weeks is a decidedly mediocre play currently being given a ridiculously fabulous production at the Theater Barn. The plot is one we have seen countless times before – two very different people are thrust together by circumstance and discover,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 Even theatre critics have their favorite shows, and it is no secret that Little Shop of Horrors is one of mine. My son Brandon and I make pilgrimages to see it whenever it is presented within reasonable driving distance. We have seen everything from an…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 “To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.”– Paul Klee Among local theatre critics the debate has been raging: Is Tina Packer too old, too heavy, or too Celtic to…
