FEATURING AN ALL-STAR CAST PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN [GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse presents a charming, plot-twist-filled radio play written by Eric Alexandre, based on Louise Penny’s first novel “Still Life,” and directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher. The all-star cast includes actors, directors, and fellow non-profit leaders and…
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, teach my heart to find the better way.”– Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Founder of the Sisters of Charity Doubt is a small play (90 minutes…
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 the Ghent Playhouse – this year’s incarnation is nominally Jack and the Beanstalk with a smattering of Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill and Simple Simon Met a Pieman,…
“When the slapstick’s too thick and the Prince is a chick,That’s a Panto!When a guy wears a dress and not under duress,That’s a Panto!” – to the tune of That’s Amore by Harry Warren, lyrics by the PantoLoons I suppose there are some people who don’t like the Panto, but I am…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2006 Gas for the car – $30 dollarsDinner at the Blue Plate – $28.50Ticket to the Ghent Playhouse – $15 or lessWatching the Panto – PRICELESS! Prince V (for Very) Charming (Sally McCarthy) is being badgered by his mother Queen Blair (Paul Murphy) and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2006 I have to say that I was disappointed to learn last month that I would not be seeing A New Brain, the show long-advertised for this slot in the Ghent season. Alas, auditions didn’t turn up enough people to produce the show properly, a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2005 The Emperor’s New Clothes is the sixth annual British-American Panto presented as a Thanksgiving treat for Columbia County and the surrounding region by Judy Staber and her stalwart Pantoloons, and this year they have a real, albeit small, theatre in which to perform. Having…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 I have always enjoyed the fact that we use the archaic “wright” when referring to someone one crafts plays. Once you have written a play it is not just something that you wrote, it is something that you wrought. I find five definitions…
