When Jeffrey Schmidt began planning his first season as artistic director of Theatre Three, he considered opening with Andorra, Max Frisch’s highly charged political play about collective bigotry.
Dallas native Anastasia Munoz plays Orlando in Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of the Virginia Wolf novel of the same name, running through May 4 at Stage West in Fort Worth.
If the play is titled Less Than Kind, it sets itself up for easy aim if the production doesn’t live up to theatrical standards. Luckily, the U.S. premiere of Sir Terence Rattigan’s smart comedy has no fears of embarrassment as produced at Theatre Three in Dallas.
Dallas struggles with its identity. If the three big cities of Texas were familial stereotypes, Dallas would be the middle child, stuck between its classy older sibling, Houston, and the cool, do-no-wrong youngest sibling, Austin.