REVIEW: “Clever Little Lies” at the Ghent Playhouse
by Gail M. Burns Joe DiPietro has something to say about being married for the long haul – it’s a slog. This is neither news…
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.
The Pantoloons annual treat in Ghent – “Ali Baba and the Four Tea Thieves”
The great tradition of the British holiday panto has thrived in Columbia County since 2000 for good reason. It is about the most fun you can have at the theatre with the whole family – a funny, musical nod to fairy tales familiar and unfamiliar, with a little cross-dressing and a lot of spoofery thrown in.
REVIEW: “Enchanted April” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 In April of 1921 popular author Elizabeth von Arnim*, then 55, widowed from her first marriage, divorced from…
REVIEW: “Doubt” at the Town Players of Pittsfield
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2009 “If I am right Thy grace impart still in the right to stay. If I am wrong Oh,…
REVIEW: “Dancing at Lughnasa” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 Oh dear sisters, our life is not yet at an end. Let us live. The music is so…
REVIEW: “The Boys Next Door” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Tom Griffin, the author of The Boys Next Door bills himself as an actor and a playwright. I have never…
REVIEW: The Panto-Loons Present “Jack and the Beanstalk” at the Ghent Playhouse
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2008 Fabulosity, thy name is Panto! Everyone I took with me to see the 9th annual British-American Panto at…