Life Sucks: Heavy Levity
Watching Russian drama can sometimes feel like lead weights dragging you to the bottom of a dark sea floor. The deeper you sink, the...
Stupid F*cking Bird: Chekhov Cocktail
Judge not a millennial lest ye feel judged when watching American playwright Aaron Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird, which opened at Stage West Theatre last...
The Two Tudors
Having taken in the literary and film versions of A Man for All Seasons (which adopts Sir Thomas More’s viewpoint) and The Other Boleyn...
Breaking the Chains
’Tis the season for local theaters to cash in on holiday cheer with appropriately themed crowd-pleasers, filling their houses with happy throngs craving the...
Fort Worth Opera’s Brief Encounters Shine
Fort Worth audiences have come to expect contemporary opera selections as an almost accepted part of the company’s annual music festival. They’ve also come...
White Christmas: Winter Wonderland
Only a few thousand Texans caught a glimpse of the snow showers that fell in November. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas debuted at Bass Performance...
Seeing Red
What’s not black or white but splattering red all over Maverick territory? At Theatre Arlington, John Lang’s Tony-Award winning Red has been distilled for...
Standing “O”-vation
Some women are better potty mouths than others. In Stage West’s latest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit...
Second Life’s a Stage
Singer-songwriter Matthew Broyles is setting up for a gig. He’s seated in front of a microphone with his playlist at his feet, tuning his...
Edge of Glory
I didn’t attend the regional premiere of Men on Boats, which took place at Onstage in Bedford back in August. I wish I had,...
