Posts Tagged ‘play’
Domestic Troubles
Big TicketSarah Ruhl has told this story often, but it bears one more repetition: She came up with the idea for her comedy The Clean House after going to a party and overhearing a woman talk about her maid, who had stopped cleaning her h...
Musical Games
Big TicketHere’s to the local symphony orchestras doing weird things with their programming.
Solo Voce
Trading in tails for jeans has been a blessing for singer-songwriter Jordan Critz.Jimmy Fowler
Ad-libbing a new ending to a Mozart concerto changed Jordan Critz’ world – not to mention his standing in the piano competition in which he was playing.
Holiday Homecomings
Big TicketLate November is usually a sleepy time for local theatergoers, with all the companies putting on cozy holiday fare, occasionally punctuated by some spikier stuff like The Santaland Diaries.
Serpentine Fire
Just in time for Halloween comes Circle Theatre’s riveting production of Snake in the Grass.Stage
You can celebrate this Halloween season with a visit to any of the Fort’s elaborately themed and bedecked haunted houses.
Colors
The battle lines on the turf of racial equality are clearly drawn in Jubilee Theatre’s Permanent Collection.Kultur
With recent controversies surrounding the so-called Jena Six and the Duke lacrosse team rape fiasco, it’s hard to think of a more timely play than Jubilee Theatre’s current, rough-rattling production of Thomas Gibbons’ Pe...
Mr. K.
Big TicketMartin McDonagh is a celebrated playwright for works such as The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Cripple of Inishmaan, but his reputation didn’t prevent his play The Pillowman from receiving wildly mixed reviews when it debut...
Black Man + White Woman = ?
Amphibian Productions tackles one of Neil LaBute’s grittiest plays.Stage
Playwright-director Neil LaBute generally comes in one flavor — bitterly misanthropic — but his works can be divided between the nasty/grumpy variety and the exhilarating and even moral.
Love Bug
The craziness is contagious in this claustrophobic, unsatisfying thriller.Kristian Lin
Purely from an intellectual standpoint, the existence of Bug tickles me. I love how it starts out as a kitchen-sink indie drama and then turns into something weirder and more menacing halfway through.
Hardball
Elitism and money have turned a summer pastime into big business that burns out many kids.ERIC GRIFFEY
At 10:30 on a blisteringly cold morning, when most 14-year-olds are just rolling out of bed, the Tigers of the Texas Select League are into their second baseball game of the day — the first was at 8 a.m.