Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2008 We’ve all been there. You’ve planned a lovely dinner and, five minutes before your guests are to arrive, the soufflé falls and the roast burns. It’s too late to call things off, what are you going to do? Its time for Tuna Surprise!…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 Alan Ayckbourn is a very popular playwright. Oldcastle has an excellent track record of producing his works. Their 1997 production of his 1975 Bedroom Farce was the most successful production in the company’s 37 year history. Four of the original eight actors are back in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 On Friday night and Saturday afternoon I saw two romantic comedies, written about 70 years apart. Guess which one is considered a classic. We open on an upper-middle class British couple, married a good dozen years, parents of two children. Enter another man:A)…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2007 No man is an island, entire of itselfevery man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main – John Donne, Meditation XVII As I drove home from the theatre and pondered what I would write about the Oldcastle production of Lee…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 I cannot recall how many times I have seen The Fantasticks – once in summer stock when I was very young, at least once at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, and, memorably, once in Phippy Kaye’s living room when a group of 4th grade girls I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The production of Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond currently running at Oldcastle is definitely feel-good summer theatre. There is nothing wrong with that. I personally had a very good time at the show, especially since Carleton Carpenter’s Norman Thayer reminded me very much of my…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain is a finely tuned character study of two families – the Janeways: Edmund “Ned,” his wife Lina and their children Nan and Walker; and the Wexlers: Theo, Margaret, and their son Philip “Pip.” The first group we meet are…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2006 “Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot…
