REVIEW: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at Hubbard Hall
by Gail M. Burns In 1983 successful singer/songwriter Rupert Holmes concocted a plan to make a musical out of Charles Dickens’ unfinished final work The…
In Cambridge, NY: Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre’s magnificent “Madama Butterfly”
Bei-Bei Guan sang the title role superbly, in this tragic opera where a Navy captain who leaves his “wife” and child behind after a fraudulent marriage returns at last.
Yes, Barrington Stage has created the most wonderful “Pirates of Penzance” ever
This Pirates of Penzance is is a tidal wave of music and mayhem guaranteed to thrill and entertain all but the stodgiest of Savoyards.
Gail Burns reviews Oldcastle’s mind-changing musical “Big River”
With a cast of sixteen, Big River is a delightful musical, a ground-breaking piece of anarchy about the relationship of Huck and Jim as they glide down the Mississippi on a raft.
Review: Little Shop of Horrors at New York’s Ghent Playhouse
Gail Burns found Little Shop “a solid production of this beloved and technically difficult show,” despite having a few problems.
When nice people have a meltdown: God of Carnage at the Theater Barn
Review of Yasmina Reza’s outrageously funny Tony winning play in which two perfectly behaved couples meet to discuss a fight their two sons had, when civility slips away and all hell breaks loose.
Burns and Murray: Multigenerational cast of “Evita” at Theater Barn wins us over
Evita (Joanna Russell) and Che (Ryan Burch) may dominate the Theater Barn stage in this rarely done Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but it is the whole cast which make this production special, say our online critics.
A grand, tragic and full throated “Rigoletto” from Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre
Rigoletto is possibly the most popular tragic opera in the repertory – and it was a whole new adventure for our theatre critic, Gail Burns. She marveled at its big sound in the intimacy of Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY.