Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2009 Susan Sandler’s 1987 play Crossing Delancey is simple, gentle, funny tale of the human connections that truly make life worthwhile. And while there is a boy-girl romance involved, the core relationship in this play is between a young woman and her grandmother – a relationship…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This is the second time this year that a playwright has had me right up until the last minutes of a play and then – whump! – dud ending. Do I write that this production offers an hour and forty-four minutes of entertaining…
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, August 2008 In case you’re new to GailSez, let it be known that Gail and Brandon (my younger son) are huge Plaid Heads. We’ve lost count, but we have seen more than a dozen productions in eight states. I famously booked the family in to…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2008 I am a pretty smart cookie. Not too much escapes me, particularly when I am sitting in the theatre, but for the life of me I cannot tell you the central joke of “How the Other Half Loves.” I like Alan Ayckbourn. I…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2007 Six Dance Lesson in Six Weeks is a decidedly mediocre play currently being given a ridiculously fabulous production at the Theater Barn. The plot is one we have seen countless times before – two very different people are thrust together by circumstance and discover,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 The wild, wild west – where men are men and women are men and outlaws dance (badly). Where the Town Tramp wears white while the “good girl” wears black (well, okay, her brother was just killed. Them’s just widder’s weeds.) Where plaintive guitar…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2007 For about twelve hours after leaving the Theater Barn I was convinced that I was losing it. What had I missed? Here was a highly touted, Tony-nominated comedy by a well known and well established playwright, and I didn’t get it. After watching…
