Eerie Does It
Click. A key turns, unexpectedly. Locked in? Panic rises as the clock keeps time. Alone and defenseless, the mind runs wild with what horrific end one might meet;
Theater
Eyes on Texas: Performing Arts
IMAGE ABOVE: Diavolo dancers performing Trajectoire. Photo by Angela weiss. AUSTIN The Agony and the Ecstasy of...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
I arrived in my Hobby Center seat feeling listless, in a major mid-week slump, with a pesky bout of melancholy tinged with despair. Then, three fabulous and feathered divas descended from the ceiling bellowing “It's Raining Men” in the opening number of Theatre Under the Stars presentation of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and suddenly the world kicked it up a few notches.
Assassins
IMAGE: L-R: Gregory Lush, stuff Sam Swanson, Daron Cockerell, and Brian Lewis. Photo by Jeffrey Schmidt. Gun control,...
Review: Raisin in the Sun
IMAGE ABOVE: Liz Mikel and Ptosha Storey in Dallas Theater Center’s Raisin in the Sun. Photo by Karen...
Review: Assistance
IMAGE ABOVE: Adam Gibbsm, Lindsay Ehrhardt, and Rebekah Stevens Gibbs in Assistance. Photo by Pin Lim. Black...
Peter and the Starcatcher
If the title character of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan existed before the beloved story begins, he might have been a nameless boy in the bowels of a boat caught in the crossfire of warring pirates. That’s the story of Peter and the Starcatcher, a winsome play touring the country and still enjoying a successful run on Broadway.
Review: Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is the most over-hyped Broadway musical of the last decade. But no doubt you’ll still be laughing about it to your friends long after the touring musical leaves Texas.
The Real Thing Main Street Theater
“Loving and being loved is unliterary,” says Annie in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, on stage right now at Main Street Theater
Matthew Keenan on Hamlet at Classical Theatre Company
Actor Matthew Keenan is deep in rehearsals for Classical Theatre Company’s Hamlet, on Sept. 11-29 at Barnevelder.
Review: The Aliens
In the Horse Head Theatre Company production of The Aliens, two men of wasted talent, who are likely...
Playing With Words
For lovers of Shakespeare and Molière, Ibsen and Chekhov, Miller and Williams, declaring our time a new Golden Age of the playwright might seem delusional, or at best, a flourish of hyperbole from some theater’s marketing department. But if you ask the artistic directors of some of the most respected ensembles in Texas, they’ll assure you such claims are hardly ridiculous.