Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2006 For all her faults, our nation is an amazing place, and the story of her founding is a gripping one. 1776 the Tony award-winning 1969 musical by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone does as good a job as is possible in telescoping the events in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2005 I am very leery of “holiday” shows. In fact I just plain refuse to attend productions of A Christmas Carol because I am liable to leap on the stage and strangle Tiny Tim the minute he hobbles on to the stage. The sight of a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2005 I spent a great deal of time the past week grumbling about murder mystery plays. I am not much of a mystery fan, and I will never understand the American value system that categorizes murder as “wholesome entertainment”, but I find mysteries in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2005 I am not much of a mystery buff, but when I was about ten years old I confess to having fallen hard for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Conan Doyle was a great yarn-spinner, and Holmes, his greatest literary creation, has…
