Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2002 Bad. Awful. Ouch! Brandon and I left at intermission. Brandon said that the humor was “rude” even for his rowdy 13-year-old male ears. Actually, the humor was less bawdy than what I heard at the Sophie Tucker show at the Mac-Haydn , and there were no naked men like…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2001 It is only fair for me to confess that I am a Plaidhead. This marks the 8th production of Forever Plaid that I have seen. Don’t ask me why I get such a kick out of this silly and harmless little entertainment, but I do,…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2001 What a delightful show! I cannot think of a happier way to spend the evening than up at Oldcastle in the company of Trudi Possey as Agnes and Richard Howe as Michael as they sprint through Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s 1966 musical…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 2001 Whoever decided to bill Panache as a screwball comedy has done Oldcastle a great disservice. Although I am hard pressed to come up with a category into which the show fits, I am sure that it is NOT screwball comedy. In fact, I have seldom…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 Many people asked me why I was going to see “Company” if I had just seen it at Barrington Stage. This question illustrates the difference between people who understand the theatre and those who don’t. With film, once you have seen it, you…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2000 I have not read ALL of Michael Frayn by a long shot, but I have read enough to know that he is not all “Noises Off”. I have also read enough of his short “humorous” pieces to know that sometimes his humor goes…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October, 1999 The 1999 theatre season has been bracketed by productions of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”. I declared the season open in late May when Town Players mounted a superb production at BCC. Now Oldcastle weighs in with its production a week after summer has officially…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 1999 What a gosh-darned silly show this is! In case you haven’t heard “Off The Hook” – playing at Oldcastle through September 4th – is a wacky broad farce, broadly directed by Russell Kaplan. Authors Allen Lewis Rickman and Karl Tiedemann claim they “started…
