REVIEW: “The Philadelphia Story” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2009 “Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some…
REVIEW: “Orphan Train” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Surplus children (the words make me shudder). They have always been a fact of life. In the animal…
REVIEW: “Twelve Angry Jurors” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 It is late afternoon on a swelteringly hot summer day in 1957. Twelve jurors – four women and…
REVIEW: “Macbeth” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2008 Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hellThat my keen knife see not the wound…
REVIEW: “Miracle on 34th Street” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 “Is this what Christmas has degenerated into, Doctor? It’s pure commercialism. Is there no true Christmas spirit left…
REVIEW: “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2007 Alas, poor Mortimer Brewster (Jason Marr). A recalcitrant theatre critic for a major New York newspaper, on the…
REVIEW: “American Soup” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 I tried to explain American Soup to someone the other day and ended up saying, “Well, at the back of…
REVIEW: “Ordeal by Innocence” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2007 “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right.” – Rudyard Kipling The New York State Theatre Institute…