Connecticut’s Favorite Holiday Tradition ReturnsCHRISTMAS ON THE ROCKSreturns to TheaterWorksDecember 2 through 23, 2021Together Again. This December. LIVE ON STAGE. What: CHRISTMAS ON THE ROCKS Fresh, funny and smart – it’s back. Conceived and directed by Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero, Connecticut’s favorite holiday tradition returns to TheaterWorks Hartford. CHRISTMAS ON THE ROCKS features seven playwrights each…
by Gail M. Burns Anders Cato’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts is breathtaking. By that I mean that it literally takes your breath away. You forget to breathe. It is that good. And what a cast! David Adkins (Pastor Manders), Mia Dillon (Helene Alving), Jonathan Epstein (Engstrand), Tara Franklin (Regine…
“And was Jerusalem builded hereamong these dark Satanic Mills?” – William Blake, “And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was greatly concerned with the dark satanic mills of Victorian Britain, and although there is nary a mill in sight in the published text his 1893 play Mrs.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is exactly the same enormous anti-establishment 1960’s melodrama that I remembered it to be. And I enjoyed it thoroughly. In an interview with a member of the BTF PR staff, playwright Dale Wasserman noted that he had only…
