The Chronicle (Glen Falls, New York)
July 19, 2007

Our Writer Lets the Theater Go to Her Head

By Cathy DeDe

Lindsey Gates' Lake George Theater Lab has come a long way from its first production three years ago to present two very good shows – last year's "OTMA," the story of the four Romanov sisters, daughters of the overthrown Russian Tsar, on the eve of their executions; and this year's "Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama," a bauble, really, about three siblings just barely holding on to their high life in the fabulous 1920s. I'll particularly point our Gabra Zackman as worldly Majorie Wilcox. Besides a striking profile that seemed already to be a Hirschfeld portrait, she strutted about the stage with just the tiniest bit of waver to their strength, inviting warmth. The character was nicely offset by Emily Fink as the seemingly simpering sister, apparently with nerves of steel. Eric Sutton's hammy high-energy lines as "Hamlet" (in a booming, clippedvoice that reminded me of Seinfeld's J. Peterman) brought the house down. Mostly, it was just a fun piece, but I was enthralled again – and ain't that love?

The Chronicle (Glens Falls, New York)
July 19, 2007

By Mark Frost, editor in chief

My first exposure to Lindsey Gates's Lake George Theater Lab- in its third summer performing in Bolton- came last Saturday night, when I caught the world premiere of a "parlor room farce" "Gin/Jazz/Love/Drama" at the Bolton High School.

It was good fun, nicely done, just $15. Heather Whaley of New York City wrote an articulate, energetic play, and the cast performances were uniformly first-rate. Nice atmospheric set, too.

So now the company has my attention and I know what our arts editor Cathy DeDe has been enthused about.