Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The wild, wild west – where men are men and women are men and outlaws dance (badly). Where the Town Tramp wears white while the “good girl” wears black (well, okay, her brother was just killed. Them’s just widder’s weeds.) Where plaintive guitar…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 For about twelve hours after leaving the Theater Barn I was convinced that I was losing it. What had I missed? Here was a highly touted, Tony-nominated comedy by a well known and well established playwright, and I didn’t get it. After watching…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Sometimes, especially at this time of year, it is hard to believe I ever write about anything but the theatre, but I actually spend a great deal of time doing other types of writing, much of it promotional – ad copy, press releases,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2006 On Golden Pond takes place from May-September of the 44th summer Norman (John Noble) and Ethel (Marci Bing) Thayer spend at their cabin on the titular lake in Maine. Norman turns 80 in July, and this milestone prompts a visit home from the Thayers’…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 No matter where you live, there has probably been a production of Urinetown mounted within an hour’s drive of your home this summer. This award-winning musical about a city where you have to pay to pee is a hot property, and the Theater Barn has…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 One of the really annoying things about being a theatre critic is that you have to think so hard about everything. There are some shows, and The Spitfire Grill is definitely one of them, that should not be thought hard about. It should just be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 I am on record as disapproving of revuesicals. They are not really theatre and not really a concert. Generally, they drive me nuts. But this one I found genuinely enjoyable, largely because of the excellent material culled primarily from the collaboration of George…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Ira Levin’s Deathtrap is the uber-murder mystery play. Not only do three out of the five characters end up dead by the final curtain, but two of them take turns murdering, or threatening to murder, each other over and over again. During its 1978-1982 run…
