Oldcastle Theatre Announces 2018 Season
What do history, silliness, Cole Porter, mathematical genius, comedy, George Washington, new works, Herman Melville, a Nobel Prize, mystery, a Pulitzer Prize, music, Ethan Allen,…
Dueling appraisals of “Kiss Me, Kate” at Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage has outdone themselves with this “Kiss Me, Kate”. Our critics sing its praises but found a couple of things to disagree about, too.
REVIEW: “High Society” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 One of the things I get to do in my day job as a church secretary is help…
REVIEW: C-R Productions Presents “Kiss Me, Kate”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2006 Last August, as a special treat, I took my then-sixteen-year-old son Brandon to New York to see Monty Python’s…
REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Cohoes Music Hall
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Wowie-wow-wow! Whadda show! All singing, all dancing. Everyone and everything in the Cohoes Music Hall production of Anything Goes looks…
REVIEW: “Can-Can” at The Theater Barn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 This is a good news/bad news review. The good news is that there is a lot to like…
REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 The only sure thing about the existing version of “Anything Goes” is that Cole Porter wrote the music…