The Great Playwright Swap: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater Helps Pilot Groundbreaking National Experiment
April 16, 2018
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The Great Playwright Swap: Dallas’s Kitchen Dog Theater Helps Pilot Groundbreaking National Experiment

For the past 20 years, the National New Play Network has connected nonprofit theaters across…

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Stages delivers emotional blow with ‘We are Proud to Present a Presentation….’
March 22, 2018
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Stages delivers emotional blow with ‘We are Proud to Present a Presentation….’

On rare occasion as a theater critic do I see a production that calls less…

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Meta Story: ‘Bright Star’ at TUTS
March 20, 2018
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Meta Story: ‘Bright Star’ at TUTS

Though it made its Broadway debut in 2016, the bluegrass music-filled Bright Star feels like…

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Outstanding Performances: A Vibrant <em>Memphis</em> at TUTS
February 27, 2018
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Houston

Outstanding Performances: A Vibrant Memphis at TUTS

The Tony Award-winning musical Memphis tells a rollicking story of the dawn of rock ’n’…

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The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages
February 21, 2018
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The Big Surround: Nancy and Tarra talk Immersivity on Texas Stages

Since we (Nancy Wozny & Tarra Gaines) have an ongoing conversation on what defines an…

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The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora
February 14, 2018
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Dallas/Ft Worth

The Front Edge of Theater Making: AT&T’s Off Broadway on Flora

Can any image fill a performing arts venue programmer or curator with more dread than…

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Re-gendering History: ‘Men on Boats’ at MST
February 14, 2018
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Houston

Re-gendering History: ‘Men on Boats’ at MST

History may be written by the victors, as the saying goes, but fundamentally history is…

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Progressive Texan: The LBJ Legacy Continues at the Alley and DTC
February 8, 2018
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Progressive Texan: The LBJ Legacy Continues at the Alley and DTC

War. Healthcare. Race. A divisive president in a tumultuous time. Self-destructive and unrestrained ego.

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Stories to Tell: Oral Fixation Expands in Texas
January 29, 2018
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Stories to Tell: Oral Fixation Expands in Texas

Oral Fixation calls Dallas home, but has started taking their storytelling show on the road…

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Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival
January 17, 2018
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Houston

Dream Fest: Stages Repertory Theater Launches Sin Muros: A Latina/o Theatre Festival

If good playwrights tend to have discerning ears for the language and voices around them,…

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Texas Studio: Elizabeth Keel
January 15, 2018
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Texas Studio

Texas Studio: Elizabeth Keel

Elizabeth Keel, a born and bred Houstonian, is unlike most theater kids; she didn’t grow…

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Order in Chaos: ‘The Curious Incident’ lands on the ZACH Theatre Stage
January 15, 2018
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Austin

Order in Chaos: ‘The Curious Incident’ lands on the ZACH Theatre Stage

ZACH Theatre presents the Austin premiere of Simon Stephens’s The Curious Incident of the Dog…

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Fun at the Laupera: <em>Traci and Tony’s Unusual New Year’s Eve</em> at Rec Room
December 30, 2017
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Houston

Fun at the Laupera: Traci and Tony’s Unusual New Year’s Eve at Rec Room

Menace in Macrame: Hansel and Gretel at the Rec Room
December 11, 2017
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Houston

Menace in Macrame: Hansel and Gretel at the Rec Room

“This is the future of art, where would you see something like this in Houston?…

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The Excitement of Shift: Joseph Keckler Comes to the Long Center
November 29, 2017
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Austin

The Excitement of Shift: Joseph Keckler Comes to the Long Center

Last April, as the evening weekend revelries began at Fusebox, Austin’s annual cross-disciplinary arts festival,…

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Making Their Mark: Imprint Theatreworks Launches in Dallas
November 29, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Making Their Mark: Imprint Theatreworks Launches in Dallas

Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward
November 29, 2017
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Art

Close to the Ground: Lily Cabatu Weiss Leads the Dallas Arts District Forward

The Messy Truth: <em>John</em> at Undermain Theatre
November 22, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

The Messy Truth: John at Undermain Theatre

Neverland No More: Sender at the Rec Room
October 23, 2017
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Neverland No More: Sender at the Rec Room

Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas
October 23, 2017
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Austin

Jane Austen, Trailer Park Boys & a Rhinoceros: Holiday Stages in Texas

As a curmudgeonly connoisseur of holiday performing arts, I’m always on the lookout for the…

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Growing a Teatro Scene: Latina/o Theater in San Antonio
October 23, 2017
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Growing a Teatro Scene: Latina/o Theater in San Antonio

From Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2017, San Antonio’s Nicolás Valdez will travel to California to be…

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Leap of Faith: Amphibian’s New Play Festival
October 9, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Leap of Faith: Amphibian’s New Play Festival

Kathleen Culebro is surprised by how many new plays submitted to her theater company are…

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Age of Aquarius Dawns on Dallas: <em>Hair</em> at DTC
September 25, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Age of Aquarius Dawns on Dallas: Hair at DTC

Kevin Moriarty was turned on to Hair by the nuns at his Catholic elementary school.

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Monsters & Mayhem at the McNay
September 20, 2017
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Art

Monsters & Mayhem at the McNay

San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum has been transformed into a haunted house for the Halloween…

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Soaring Music and Real Characters: <em>Fun Home</em> at AT&T
September 18, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Soaring Music and Real Characters: Fun Home at AT&T

Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall opens its final season with Ayad Akhtar’s <em>Disgraced</em>
September 11, 2017
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Houston

Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall opens its final season with Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced

Great drama is seldom blatantly didactic, but on occasion theater does gift us with certain…

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Glam Makeover: The Hidden Room’s <em>Henry IV</em> in Austin
September 11, 2017
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Austin

Glam Makeover: The Hidden Room’s Henry IV in Austin

Shakespeare, politics, glam rock: these are not terms we often put together, if ever, yet…

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Theater After Harvey: Houston’s Small Companies Must Continue
September 5, 2017
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Houston

Theater After Harvey: Houston’s Small Companies Must Continue

As the Texas Gulf Coast begins the rebuilding process after the catastrophic damage of Hurricane…

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A New Era: Jeffrey Schmidt at Theatre Three
August 23, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

A New Era: Jeffrey Schmidt at Theatre Three

When Jeffrey Schmidt began planning his first season as artistic director of Theatre Three, he…

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What about Gender?: Creative Casting on Texas Stages
August 14, 2017
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What about Gender?: Creative Casting on Texas Stages

The hot-button issue of casting has recently received a lot of ink as directors, actors,…

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Acting in Texas: Luis Galindo
August 10, 2017
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Acting in Texas

Acting in Texas: Luis Galindo

Sister Tarra Goes to Horse Head’s <em>Church</em>
August 8, 2017
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Houston

Sister Tarra Goes to Horse Head’s Church

Beloved Brothers and Sisters, I bid you welcome to this Church review, and I ask…

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Rec Room’s Punk New Season
June 20, 2017
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Houston

Rec Room’s Punk New Season

Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre
June 15, 2017
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Full Season Ahead for Houston’s Horse Head Theatre

Houston’s Horse Head Theatre company has a reputation for staging intriguing and occasional avant-garde contemporary…

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A Crisis of Space: Austin Struggles with the Loss of Performance Venues
May 31, 2017
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Austin

A Crisis of Space: Austin Struggles with the Loss of Performance Venues

“We always felt that this was a clubhouse for a group of friends who felt…

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Dallas Children’s Theater <em>Mufaro</em> Returns Home after National Tour
May 23, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Dallas Children’s Theater Mufaro Returns Home after National Tour

At first, the schoolchildren who are filing into Dallas City Performance Hall with wide eyes…

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It Happened in Texas: A New Take on <em>Inherit the Wind</em> at DTC
May 19, 2017
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It Happened in Texas

It Happened in Texas: A New Take on Inherit the Wind at DTC

It’s difficult to imagine a time when all professional theater in the country emanated from…

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Unwiring from War: <em>Cry Havoc </em>at Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre
May 19, 2017
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Houston

Unwiring from War: Cry Havoc at Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre

Can performing Shakespeare become a form of therapy that allows actor and audience to find…

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Tragic Puzzles: <em>Luna Gale</em> at Stages Repertory Theatre
May 17, 2017
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Tragic Puzzles: Luna Gale at Stages Repertory Theatre

With a quick glance at the synopsis, playwright Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale, now at Stages…

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Immersive Instigations: <em>Holy Bone</em> at Dead White Zombies
May 11, 2017
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Dallas/Ft Worth

Immersive Instigations: Holy Bone at Dead White Zombies

Thomas Riccio’s Dead White Zombies (DWZ) project is his most accessible but least challenging production…

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