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, 2001 Whoever decided to bill Panache as a screwball comedy has done Oldcastle a great disservice. Although I am hard pressed to come up with a category into which the show fits, I am sure that it is NOT screwball comedy. In fact, I have seldom…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 What a gosh-darned silly show this is! In case you haven’t heard “Off The Hook” – playing at Oldcastle through September 4th – is a wacky broad farce, broadly directed by Russell Kaplan. Authors Allen Lewis Rickman and Karl Tiedemann claim they “started…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 “November”, which opened belatedly at Oldcastle on Tuesday, is a new play by a playwright who identifies himself only as J Ranelli. I assume he is a he because that is how Oldcastle referred to him in their press release, but often when…
