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Burning Bright (Broadway Theatre Archives): DVD Review by Wendy Caster

If you never had the amazing experience of seeing Colleen Dewhurst perform live, you can get a taste of how wonderful she was through the magic of technology. In 1959, John Steinbeck's Burning Bright was presented as a TV Play of the Week, and the Broadway Theatre Archives released it as a DVD in 2003. The play is overwritten and mediocre. The tape is black-and-white and raspy and very low tech. None of that matters:…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:40PM on June 30, 2013

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