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Letts’ Play, Oklahoma City: October
August: Osage County. “It can be argued that this is the most significant theatrical work to come out of Oklahoma since a little musical you might have heard of, “mused Oklahoma City Repertory...
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Join me at the theater? Schedule Updates
Come with me to the theater? Play productions are beginning to sprout like colorful weeds all over the region. Here’s what’s opening soon or playing now: THE EXECUTIONER’S SONS by Catherine Bush...
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Broken Gears’ CREDITORS: Debt Paid in Full
Snuggle up tight, lover, and pay your debt. When Alan Rickman directed the 1888 play Creditors in London and New York in 2008, he described it as “three characters dragged through a hedge backwards in...
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Fortinbras,Fortinbras—wherefore art thou, soldier dude?
Hullo, Hamlet: you dashing, dizzy, doomed Dane. Wherefore did your intrepid Shakespeare Dallas director Rene Moreno deign to dilute your dimensional drama by employing a stuffy, flat version of your...
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Lizard Love Lite: Iguana Nights at Contemporary Theatre
Gender power games, obsession, self-delusion, manic addiction and self-destructive compulsion, the wilds of nature v. the wilderness of civilization, all taking place in a shaken up world where the...
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An August, Osage State of Mind: Letts Ride at WaterTower
The Big Apple’s critical embrace: Charles Isherwood from his 12/5/2007 Broadway review in the NY Times: “A fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of near-apocalyptic meltdown,...
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2012 DFW Theatre Critics Forum Awardees
Nobody got tossed through any windows. The crockery remains intact. No hit men have been surreptitiously slipped piles of unmarked bills and notes containing home addresses, to my knowledge. The DFW...
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The 47% Solution: “November” @ Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre
And now for more political news, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre wades into the fray with a timely, hilarious production of “November”, running through September 23 in its intimate downstairs CitySpace...
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Get Ye Olde Laugh-In On: Echo Theatre’s “The Lucky Chance”
And you thought Beyonce was the Queen of Lip-Sync? She has nothing on the cast of “The Lucky Chance, or The Alderman’s Bargain”, playing through February 23rd at The Bath House Cultural Center,...
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A Passing Grace: Angels Fall @ Contemporary Theatre of Dallas
Expressing exuberance when quoted in a 1982 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article as his new play Angels Fall worked its way towards Broadway, playwright Lanford Wilson exclaimed, “The writing is as good as...
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Going Gurney Class at WaterTower Theatre
Characters Velma and the Prison Matron sing it best in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago… Whatever happened to fair dealing? And pure ethics And nice manners? Why is it everyone now’s a pain in...
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CityRep Soufflé: Cooking Up Much Ado
Producing a play shares similarities with cooking a perfect soufflé. Carefully selected, measured ingredients get mixed with scientific precision (with a master chef or director’s signature touch) and...
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Gone Southie: Watertower Theatre’s GOOD PEOPLE
David Lindsay-Abaire’s homage to the work-worn, hard-edged folk of South Boston (known as ‘Southies’), “Good People”, gets a sincere production from a strong acting ensemble in WaterTower Theatre’s...
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Reaching for the Summit: “The Mountaintop” in Oklahoma
Memphis, Tennessee. April 3, 1968. Rain pouring down. The Lorraine Motel. A shabby but orderly hotel room. One occupant: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. .He has just delivered his epic “I’ve Been to the...
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Luminosity in blu: Cara Mia Theatre Company Illuminated
The Cambridge English dictionary defines luminosity as the total amount of energy produced by a star in one second. Another source describes it as the rate at which a star radiates energy in all...
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Criticalrant’s Final “First Choices” of 2015
2015 unfolded as a stunner of a thespian year, from classics to new work, dynamic paradigm-shifters to re-invigorated audience favorites, ensemble achievements to compelling solo work. Youth to...
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