REVIEW: “Miracle on 34th Street” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 “Is this what Christmas has degenerated into, Doctor? It’s pure commercialism. Is there no true Christmas spirit left…
REVIEW: “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2007 Alas, poor Mortimer Brewster (Jason Marr). A recalcitrant theatre critic for a major New York newspaper, on the…
REVIEW: “Reunion” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2007 If you take Reunion at face value as staged musical chronicle of the years Abraham Lincoln was president, it works…
REVIEW: “American Soup” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 I tried to explain American Soup to someone the other day and ended up saying, “Well, at the back of…
REVIEW: “Ordeal by Innocence” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2007 “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right.” – Rudyard Kipling The New York State Theatre Institute…
REVIEW: “A Wonderful Life” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2006 On the way over the mountains to Troy my eleven-year-old nephew regaled me with tales of why his…
REVIEW: “Better Don’t Talk” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2006 If you love theatre, you MUST go and see Better Don’t Talk, and you better had hurry because it…
REVIEW: “The Cat, The Sun, and The Mirror” at the New York State Theatre Institute
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 It is a sad comment on how we prioritize our arts dollars that I am used to seeing…