Arts & Culture Texas

Review: Carnival Round the Central Figure

Tarra Gaines·November 11, 2013

Sometimes when a piece of theater challenges me, I look for answers in the play’s title. So soon after seeing the Mildred’s Umbrella regional premiere of Carnival Round the Central Figure, I sought meaning from carnivals.

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Dark Comedies & Deranged Elves

Tarra Gaines·November 2, 2013

How many dance devotées first became entranced with ballet as children, watching a swirl of human snowflakes float across the stage? How many regional theater season subscription holders had their first taste of an onstage happy ending when a gleeful Ebenezer Scrooge saves the Cratchit family through the magic of a giant turkey for Tiny Tim?

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Venus in Fur

Tarra Gaines·October 22, 2013

Taking my seat at the Alley Theatre’s production of David Ives’ Venus in Fur, I didn’t imagine that the play might be appropriate for Halloween.

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Review: Assistance

Tarra Gaines·September 24, 2013

IMAGE ABOVE: Adam Gibbsm, Lindsay Ehrhardt, and Rebekah Stevens Gibbs in Assistance. Photo by Pin Lim. Black...

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Review: The Aliens

Tarra Gaines·August 31, 2013

In the Horse Head Theatre Company production of The Aliens, two men of wasted talent, who are likely...

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Tarra Gaines

Review: Carnival Round the Central Figure

Dark Comedies & Deranged Elves

Venus in Fur

Review: Assistance

Review: The Aliens