REVIEW: “The Philadelphia Story” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2009 “Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.”– Katharine Hepburn “If you’re given a choice…

REVIEW: “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2007 Alas, poor Mortimer Brewster (Jason Marr). A recalcitrant theatre critic for a major New York newspaper, on the very night he has to go and review “Murder Will Out” he “outs” several murderers in his own extended family. Of course, as Mortimer says,…