The Company Model on Texas Stages
The plays change but the players remain the same: Such is the model of a resident acting company, a group of artists who create theater together as a team.
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Dream with Them: The Sin Fronteras Festival Brings Theater for Young Audiences to Austin
What power do young people have to transform the very fabric of our nation? How can theater do this type of social justice work?
Houston Theater 2018: A Chat with Tarra Gaines
It was a big year on the Houston theater landscape. Most nights of the week ACTX’s trusted Houston theater writer Tarra Gaines can be found in a theater seat. Gaines visited with ACTX editor Nancy Wozny to sort out what happened on Houston stages in 2018.
REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast at TUTS
Twenty-five years ago, to the month, Theatre Under the Stars world-premiered Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in its pre-Broadway run and introduced this independent Belle to the stage. As a grand holiday offering (through Dec. 23), TUTS now revives the show for its 50th anniversary season.
REVIEW: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at 4th Wall Theatre
The great grand dame of hate-becomes-love stories Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice always held a current of social commentary beneath the surface of the glorious romance.
Catching up with North Texas Theater: A Conversation with Lindsey Wilson
Lindsey Wilson is hands down one of the most prolific theater writers in Texas.
Sci-Fi Theater: The Epic Adventure of ‘Panto Star Force’ at Stages
If you are familiar with a certain popular space franchise enjoying a reboot right now, you might see some similarities with this years Panto at Stages Repertory Theatre, which promises to take us to a galaxy far, far away.
Life, Death and Healing: Hyde Park Theatre Partners with Catastrophic Theatre for Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey
In Obie Award-winning playwright Will Eno’s latest work, Wakey, Wakey, the endearingly befuddled Guy takes the audience along on a somewhat bumbling memorial journey through his life on the way to his death.
Directing in Texas: Matt Hune
When Matt Hune, artistic director of Houston’s Rec Room Arts, talks about his role as a theater director, he speaks of perspective, space, color and texture, words that seem more the purview of the visual artist than the vocabulary of someone audiences might imagine as that mysterious person behind the scenes bossing about all the actors.
REVIEW: ‘Swimming While Drowning’ at Stages
Ah, young love, that time in life when two star-crossed lovers might feel they exist in a world to themselves or the whole world is out to pull them asunder.
Communication, context, and consent: Why more Texas theaters are hiring intimacy directors
As more instances of sexual harassment and abuse of power are being uncovered, especially in the theatrical community, more companies are realizing they need an important addition to their creative team: an intimacy director.
Friendship, Rivalries and Lots of Ale: ‘Book of Will’ at Main Street Theater
Will Shakspere, actor, theater owner and writer is dead; long live–for 400 years–William Shakespeare.