“There is a huge audience for a good whodunit on a hot summer’s night,” says Gail Burns, who notes that while talky, “This is a cerebral mystery,…that keeps you guessing right up until Miss Marple does her magic in the final scene.”
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Something is missing here, and my instinct is that the problem lies in the script, but from what I can gather Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies has been a big success in regional and community theatres around the world since it premiered at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 2004. Ludwig…
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 gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering…– Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2009 “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”– Morrie Schwartz And writing, reading, reciting, reenacting, gives humans the illusion that a relationship has some measure of “immortality” – look at the annual rituals of any organized religion. In the mid-1990’s portswriter Mitch Albom collaborated…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 “Visiting Mr. Green” is gentle little show by Jeff Baron that had its genesis at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 1996. This is its second local outing since then – the Town Players produced it early in 2007 and now the Theater Barn is mounting it as one of their…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I highly recommend the charming little production of The Mousetrap currently running at The Theater Barn. Director Tony Capone skillfully guides a talented cast through and around Abe Phelps’ evocative set as Agatha Christie’s script fills the stage with more floppin’ fresh Red Herrings than…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2007 Even theatre critics have their favorite shows, and it is no secret that Little Shop of Horrors is one of mine. My son Brandon and I make pilgrimages to see it whenever it is presented within reasonable driving distance. We have seen everything from an…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 There is a reason why this serious look at the dynamics of the delicate and tenuous relationships between human males and females has such a cutesy and frivolous title as Boy Gets Girl, but on a brief scan of the Theater Barn’s 2007 schedule…
