Musical theater has, as of late, taken some strange turns. Movies beget musicals that beget musical movies, but none, thus far, have been as surprising as “The Toxic Avenger,” based on the cult classic film [...]...
THERE ARE 32 KNOWN ENGLISH translations of Anton Chekhov’s 1895 play “The Seagull,” and when deciding to add the title to the Alley Theatre’s 2011– 12 season, Gregory Boyd and his team read every one of them. After all [...]...
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, GEORGE Hawkins dreamed of a place where African-American actors and artists could practice and perfect their craft. With no physical space available for such an endeavor back in 1976, Hawkins stuffed the trunk of his car with props and costumes and caravanned with other performers around Houston [...]...
The second season for Nouveau 47 Theatre could be a telling one. The group, stomach which formed in 2010 and starting producing plays, recipe staged readings ...
When playwright Teresa Wash wrote a one-act skit for her Atlanta church in the 1990s called “The Test of Time” she had no clue how prophetic its title would b...
In more than two decades, online Michael John LaChiusa has been one of our most prolific composers for musical theater, illness as well as opera, help not to...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Jaap Van Zweden has received a top honor. Musical America gave him its Conductor of the Year award.
“He has been awarded this honor...
ACCORDING TO PLAYWRIGHT Lisa D’Amour, check there’s a lot more going on at our local trailer park than we might imagine.
In her play “Anna Bella Eema,”...
Talking a mile a minute with hands waving, troche Stages chief Kenn McLaughlin, drug charges up his audience for the opening of the season.
“What you are abo...
Don't let her worn jeans tucked into high top cowboy boots fool you. Behind the Odessa native’s soft- spoken down-home demeanor lurks a sophisticated, worldly a...
Kathy didn't choose to go into puppetry. The puppets chose her.
The founder and artistic director of Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts, which has been in ...
Main Street Theater Shines in its Third Decade
Rebecca Greene Udden bustles up the stairs of Main Street Theater’s Times Street offices, link offering ...