Posts Tagged ‘play’
One-Man Bands
Big TicketThe piano, it’s often said, is the one instrument that can best approximate the sonorities and sound volume of an orchestra.
College Boards
Big TicketWe’re now far enough into the spring semester that collegiate theater departments have had time to rehearse and stage their new plays. Texas Wesleyan came out with its Benjamin Franklin play last week, and now most of the oth...
Short Hop to the Big Apple
A TCU-born theater group is introducing local frogs to the off-Broadway pond — and vice versa.Jimmy Fowler
It wasn’t much of a stretch, when a small group of TCU drama students decided to stage a play on the Horned Frog campus seven years ago, for them to pick the name Amphibian Productions for the new theatrical entity they&#...
Rooting for Roots
In a new book about Americana, the vitriol tries to dilute the poignant insights.Books
What an odd book — fascinating at times yet frustrating in its lack of organization and purpose.
Trippin’
Taking on August Wilson’s ‘Joe Turner,’ Jubilee succinctly conjures the play’s hallucinatory vibe.Stage
A year ago this month, the much-feted playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer at age 60, and theater companies have reacted by reviving so much of his work that it has practically constituted a national Wilson festival. H...
Olive the Family
Kristian LinAn enormous crowd-pleaser at the Sundance Film Festival, Little Miss Sunshine now looks poised to be this year’s “little indie movie that could” box-office hit. The packed house at the Angelika in Dallas, where I saw it l...
August in August
Big TicketIn Woody Allen’s 1979 film Manhattan, his character says, “When it comes to relationships with women, I’m the winner of the August Strindberg Award.”
Turn of the Screw
StagePlaywright, screenwriter, and tv scribe Richard Dresser once told an interviewer, “I’ve had occasion to work at a series of jobs ranging from a plastics factory where I made G.I. Joe’s thighs … to Hollywood, where I...