REVIEW: “Yours, Anne” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 The nicest part [of being in hiding] is being able to write down all my thoughts and feelings, otherwise I’d absolutely suffocate.– Anne Frank, March 16, 1944 There is no other word but beautiful for NYSTI’s production of Yours, Anne, under the direction of Michael…

REVIEW: “Orphan Train” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Surplus children (the words make me shudder). They have always been a fact of life. In the animal kingdom “surplus” young are produced each year – the ones who will be taken by predators or disease or accident – in order to ensure…