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The Queen is coming to Texas. Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II...
Theater
Bleeding Love
They say love hurts. In playwright Rajiv Joseph’s love story, search Gruesome Playground Injuries, online love indeed leaves...
Room for Improvement
Theater’s Proposed Renovation Includes Overdue Improvements But Needs a Lighter Touch In contrast to Houston’s other major theaters — Jones Hall, The Wortham Center, and The Hobby Center, which are bland, boxy affairs — the Alley Theatre is an utterly memorable building. Originally designed by Ulrich Franzen, its [...]
Suspended Animation
The Bridge Club Heads to Currents New Media Festival If the medium is the message, as philosopher and...
Flying High
Candied peanuts, cialis popcorn, treat clown cars, viagra 60mg and flying ladies. That’s the circus. Or is it? ...
Fit at 15
Celebrating its fifteenth season this year, the Festival of Independent Theatres has a unique history of showcasing new talent, encouraging innovative risk taking and premiering new works by local playwrights. Over the last decade and a half, some of Dallas’ most prominent artists have [...]
Close Up Space
When we first meet editor Paul Barrow, the protagonist of Molly Smith Metzler’s Close Up Space, making its regional premiere at Main Street Theater (MST), he’s self-righteously ripping through a series of emails from the headmaster at his rebellious daughter’s boarding school, tearing apart extemporaneous words and phrases [...]
Blue Man, Marshmallows & Possibly Some Blue Trees
A visit with Houston Native Shane Andries First came the trees, as in Konstantin Dimopoulis’ fabulous public art...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
It doesn’t matter that the plot is minimal, that the music is loud, or that the acting is...
Review: Fela!
Raucous and defiant, electrifying and exhilarating, Fela! is a very different musical, blending a wide variety of attitudes and moods, sometimes angry, sometimes coy, sometimes soothing, sometimes sexy, sometimes groping for the mysterious and spiritual. Sprouting from the hybrid Afrobeat songs (jazz, funk, highlife, traditional Yoruban chants [...]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical
An Interview with Wade McCollum Wade McCollum as last seen in Dallas as a ripped and highly sexual...