REVIEW: “Pump Boys and Dinettes” at the Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns Back in the early 1980’s a couple of musician friends dressed up in mechanics overalls, billed themselves as the Pump Boys,…
REVIEW: “The Mousetrap” at The Theater Barn
by Gail M. Burns The original London production of The Mousetrap, which opened in 1952, is STILL running; and there are endless amateur stagings every…
REVIEW: “Grease” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 In the beginning, there was Sha Na Na, which did perform at Woodstock (1969) in the minutes before…
REVIEW: “Same Time, Next Year” at The Theater Barn
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…
REVIEW: “On Golden Pond” at The Theater Barn
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…
REVIEW: “The Spitfire Grill” at The Theater Barn
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…
REVIEW: “Songs for a New World” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Songs for a New World is basically a semi-staged concert of songs by Jason Robert Brown, an up-and-coming young…
REVIEW: “The Rats,” “In a Glass Darkly,” “The Actress,” and “The Mystery at Twicknam Vicarage” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 The Theater Barn is billing this evening of mysteries as containing only two plays, which, technically it does,…