Posts Tagged ‘playwright’
Becky’s New Car Stalls
Despite impeccable acting and an exhilarating start, Circle’s latest comes up short in the end.JIMMY FOWLER
There’s a revealing bit of wisdom expressed by the title character of the bittersweet marital comedy Becky’s New Car, set to begin its final weekend of performances at Circle Theatre. Becky (Lisa Fairchild), a charming and ...
November Reign
Stage West tackles an acerbic political satire.JIMMY FOWLER
Stage West’s current production of David Mamet’s acidic political comedy November is the fourth show directed by Dana Schultes, who serves as the company’s director of development. She is, of course, well known to Fort Wo...
Students on Stage
Big TicketIt may be August, but if you think the colleges have gone quiet when it comes to performing arts, UNT is going to prove you wrong.
Third Reel
Big TicketThe third Lone Star International Film Festival kicks off this weekend, and festivalgoers will be seeking something to match the awards buzz of 2007′s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, the crowd-pleasing tendency ...
Ice Age
KRISTIAN LINThe image of Thornton Wilder as a folksy and homespun playwright is almost entirely down to the unceasing popularity of Our Town. Most people, however, forget that this fourth wall-breaking, non-realistically staged 1938 play r...
Arms and the Woman
Big TicketStage West’s press release about Major Barbara likens the play to The Apprentice.
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...
Hell to the Chief?
StageIt’s assumed that the majority of regular theatergoers lean a little bit to the left politically. If that’s true, then the myriad presidential misdeeds by our current clueless leader must be much on the minds of the audienc...