REVIEW: The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall Presents “Uncle Vanya”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 There are three kinds of people in the world: people who love Chekhov, people who hate Chekhov, and people who are afraid of Chekhov because he’s Russian and everyone says he is a “great playwright.” I am a person who loves Chekhov. Whenever…

REVIEW: The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall Presents “The Miser”

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 Director Kevin McGuire writes in his Director’s Notes that he found working on this production of Molière’s 1668 comedy The Miser to be the “perfect antidote to winter.” Indeed, in this hibernal season, which has made up for in ferocity what it lacked in timing,…

REVIEW: “The Importance of Being Earnest” at Hubbard Hall

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 2003 Director Derek Campbell has taken a positively Wodehouseian approach to Oscar Wilde’s last play, and it works very well. Campbell has preserved the formality and stiffness of late Victorian Britain that Wilde so deftly lampoons, while moving the wordy dialogue along at a…