REVIEW: “Assassins” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2008 I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Mill City Productions has a lovely new home in Western Gateway Heritage State Park. Unfortunately that is also the bad news for its first production there, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins. The new space…

REVIEW: “Rabbit Hole” at Mill City Productions

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 2007 David Lindsay-Abaire wrote Rabbit Hole after fellow playwright and former Juilliard teacher Marsha Norman (‘Night, Mother) told him to write a play about something that frightened him. Being a good playwright, he wrote about death, because there is nothing bigger and scarier in the entire…

REVIEW: The Drury Drama Team Presents “Little Shop of Horrors”

Review by Gail M. Burns, November 2005 There is much that is good about the Drury Drama Team’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, and some pieces that don’t quite work. The most important thing that is immediately apparent is how much fun the kids involved in this production are having…

REVIEW: “The Skin of Our Teeth” at MCLA

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 This is an amazing play – a play about everything and nothing, about the daily grind and the larger cosmic issues, about family and government and religion and floods and glaciers and the extinction of the dinosaurs… When it first appeared on the…