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…
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 Lark” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2006 Joan of Arc (1412-1431) made her first appearance as a character in a play within five years of…
REVIEW: “1776” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 For all her faults, our nation is an amazing place, and the story of her founding is a…