by Barbara Waldinger What an impact a director can have on the success of a play! Jason Odell Williams’ Church and State, having been produced last season by Berkshire Theatre Group on the Unicorn’s proscenium stage, is currently running at Circle Theatre Players’ Fuess Performing Space at Sand Lake Center…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2009 “If I am right Thy grace impart still in the right to stay. If I am wrong Oh, teach my heart to find the better way.”– Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Founder of the Sisters of Charity Doubt is a small play (90 minutes…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Tom Griffin, the author of The Boys Next Door bills himself as an actor and a playwright. I have never seen him act, but based on this script he has a ways to go before he can call himself a playwright. It feels like Griffin…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2008 Fabulosity, thy name is Panto! Everyone I took with me to see the 9th annual British-American Panto at the Ghent Playhouse – this year’s incarnation is nominally Jack and the Beanstalk with a smattering of Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill and Simple Simon Met a Pieman,…
“When the slapstick’s too thick and the Prince is a chick,That’s a Panto!When a guy wears a dress and not under duress,That’s a Panto!” – to the tune of That’s Amore by Harry Warren, lyrics by the PantoLoons I suppose there are some people who don’t like the Panto, but I am…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2007 “You’re nothing without meWithout me you’re nothing at all”-David Zippel City of Angels The character who sings these lyrics is a writer, and he is singing them to his fictional creation. That the fictional creation sings back proves that this is the land…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2006 Gas for the car – $30 dollarsDinner at the Blue Plate – $28.50Ticket to the Ghent Playhouse – $15 or lessWatching the Panto – PRICELESS! Prince V (for Very) Charming (Sally McCarthy) is being badgered by his mother Queen Blair (Paul Murphy) and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2006 Watching Social Security is sort of like eating a meringue. All sweet fluff that dissolves quickly. As a critic it is my job to take a knife and fork and dissect the creation, and I am here to tell you that there is not much…
