PREVIEW: “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” at Main Street Stage
by Gail M. Burns, July 2003 After preview performances last week, Main Street Stage officially opens their production of Martin McDonagh’s prize-winning play The Beauty Queen…
REVIEW: “Eleemosynary” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2002 Even though Black Sheep was an imperfect play, it was intriguing enough that I jumped at the chance to see…
REVIEW: “The Value of Names” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 We all know the horror of losing our “good name”. For whatever it is worth, whatever minor sins…
REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1999 “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not…
REVIEW: “Oleanna” at Main Street Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 Under new management, the former Manic Stage has reached back to its roots to reinvent itself as what…
REVIEW: “The Oppenheimer Project” (Oppenheimer 2.1)
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 1999 I was pleased to learn that D.J. McDonald was bring an updated version of his “Oppenheimer Project” to…
REVIEW: “Dr. Holmes of Boston” at The Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 1999 Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor of medicine, a popular humor writer, a founder of “The Atlantic” magazine,…
REVIEW: “Scrooge” at Manic Stage
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1998 Manic Stage enters the annual Dickens frenzy this year with their own adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” entitled…