REVIEW: “Bushwa: A Modern Ubu” at Confetti Stage

by Gail M. Burns If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu roi” holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre.  If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it.  And I would guess that the…

REVIEW: “Bushwa: A Modern Ubu” at Confetti Stage

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s Ubu roi holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre. If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it. And I would guess that…

REVIEW: Three Dollar Bill Productions Presents “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 Since its wildly successful off-Broadway run in 1998 and equally successful film version, both starring author John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch has become a cult classic. People find it life-changing and the score and lyrics by Stephen Trask is venerated. Since Trask…