REVIEW: “Absence and Presence” at MASS MoCA
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2006 The great mystery of life can be summed up in the words Absence and Presence. I have been witness…
REVIEW: “A Wonderful Life” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2006 On the way over the mountains to Troy my eleven-year-old nephew regaled me with tales of why his…
REVIEW: The Panto “Cinderella” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2006 Gas for the car – $30 dollarsDinner at the Blue Plate – $28.50Ticket to the Ghent Playhouse –…
REVIEW: Dirck Toll in “Relax – I Brought Enough Ego for Everybody” and “Irregular Opposition”
by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 “…someplace between the twin extremes of Artifice and Edifice…” lies the writing of Dirck Toll. In this review you…
REVIEW: C-R Productions Presents “Ragtime”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 Ragtime is an amazing musical. You may never have heard of it or may have glanced at the title…
REVIEW: “Better Don’t Talk” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 If you love theatre, you MUST go and see Better Don’t Talk, and you better had hurry because it…
REVIEWS: “Sorry, Wrong Number” and “The Hitchhiker” at Mill City Productions
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 By all reports Mill City Productions, the North Adams-based community theatre group started two years ago by alumni…
REVIEWS: Readings from Poe and Edith Wharton’s “Kerfol” at Shakespeare & Company
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 2006 This double bill, featuring a reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and a stage adaptation of…