Theater
Review: Love Goes To Press
Main Street Theater November 23-December 23, 2012 This just in: the battle of the sexes meets the front in Main Street Theater’s rediscovered mid-40’s wartime romance Loves Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles. Despite the welcome presence of pre-feminist leading women [...]
Company Stages Big Move
Kathleen Culebro, who, along with four other Texas Christian University students founded Amphibian Stage Productions in 2000, can be so low-key and understated that it’s sometimes hard to believe that she is an artist in the world of theater, where egos and big-talkers often dominate. “My longtime shyness has been Amphibian’s biggest [...]
Holiday Gems
There’s a bounty of holiday art activity every year, from the mainstays like A Christmas Carol and The...
Review: Body Awareness
It might sound a bit risqué when you first hear that a theatre company called Stark Naked is putting on a play called Body Awareness. But despite its title, Annie Baker’s 2008 one-act play has much more to do with the mind and with psychological evasiveness than with [...]
Review: Miss Julie
Classical Theatre Company September 26-October 14, 2012 Swedish playwright August Strindberg, whose death marks its one-hundredth anniversary this year, is remembered both for his hand in shepherding drama away from overelaborate plotting towards a pared down naturalism [...]
Jac Of All Trades
FREUD’S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites a young, little-known professor, C.S. Lewis, to...
Playing at Politics
The political rhetoric in the 2008 election was enough to make many Americans roll their eyes or perhaps...
The Big Show
A new big top production from the internationally-renowned Cirque du Soleil is flying high in downtown Dallas through...
Review: Life Is a Dream
Main Street Theater September 20 – October 21 Main Street Theater opened its 38th Season with Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s poetic masterpiece, Life Is a Dream. Written in the 17th century, the work questions what it means to be fully awake and if it is only in our dreams [...]
Theater in the Raw
Strong Acting Defines Stark Naked Theatre When I first met Philip Lehl and Kim Tobin over a Chinese...