Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2009 Something is missing here, and my instinct is that the problem lies in the script, but from what I can gather Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies has been a big success in regional and community theatres around the world since it premiered at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 2004. Ludwig…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 “Visiting Mr. Green” is gentle little show by Jeff Baron that had its genesis at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 1996. This is its second local outing since then – the Town Players produced it early in 2007 and now the Theater Barn is mounting it as one of their…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I highly recommend the charming little production of The Mousetrap currently running at The Theater Barn. Director Tony Capone skillfully guides a talented cast through and around Abe Phelps’ evocative set as Agatha Christie’s script fills the stage with more floppin’ fresh Red Herrings than…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2007 Like Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, the show that preceded it on the Theater Barn schedule, Almost, Maine has taken the regional theatre world by storm. EVERYONE has just done it, is doing it, or will do it in the coming months. And like Six Dance…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2006 Just when you think of the Theater Barn as a nice safe little summer stock place they go and stage The Graduate. Pop Quiz: What is Mrs. Robinson’s first name?* It is uttered a few times in the first scene of this play, but…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2005 The Theater Barn is billing this evening of mysteries as containing only two plays, which, technically it does, but a total of four separate pieces are presented in the course of a brief ninety minutes (I’ve sat through many first acts that run…
