Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 Seeing the well received and lively opening night performance of Bye Bye Broadway at North Pointe last night took me back a quarter century or so to the summers when I used to write and direct my own original musicals. There is nothing so exciting,…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November, 2003 This is an exhilarating production of a fascinating play. In Lebensraum Israel Horovitz, one of America’s greatest living playwrights, has concocted a fantasy of what would happen if Germany suddenly invited six million Jews to emigrate there, in order to atone for the horrors of…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2003 In an effort to entice audiences to this play, which contains no song, dance, sex, or violence, marketing types have used words like “hilarious” and “suspenseful.” The Drawer Boy is neither. And that is not a bad thing. In fact, the amazing thing is the…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2002 When I learned that I was going to attend and review a show about Susan Smith’s drowning of her two toddler sons, my heart sank. Two years ago I saw and reviewed In A Lake of Fire, a musical based on this tragic true…

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2002 There is one particular Tony Award-winning musical that I go to see every time it is mounted in reasonable driving distance simply because I have yet to see a production that explains to me why it is a Tony Award-winning musical and I…