MJ – The Musical
Since relocating to Austin, I’ve visited my hometown, NYC, for the past thirteen years to see any Broadway musical featuring a pop, rock, or jazz musician or group. For over…
Suddenly Last Summer at the Filigree
Season 6 at the Filigree Theatre opened with the powerful Tennessee Williams play Suddenly Last Summer. Perhaps it cannot be helped that with such a brilliant script as only the…
Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical
This is not the musical Hair, but one could be forgiven seeing the importance of hair in this 1990 musical based on the 1886 story of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange…
Funny, Like an Abortion
The title ‘Funny, Like an Abortion’ is provocative and thought-provoking, encapsulating the play’s dark humor and serious subject matter. It’s a play that uses humor to shed light on the…
Sunny Days at the Vortex
The Vortex Theater is a small, innovative theatre company located on Manor Road in East Austin that continually pushes the boundaries of experimental theatre. In business for three decades (a…
Stoppard’s Arcadia
Those of us fortunate enough to be a member of a university department of “Mathematics, Physics and Computing,” as I am, can certainly appreciate the 1993 Tom Stoppard play Arcadia.…
Calm Your T!ts –
A Bittersweet Satire on the State of Texas Law Against Women Nature abhors a vacuum. The theme of Calm Your T!ts, a 50-minute comedy, reflects on what is happening in…
Pass Over – The Play You Need to See
Written by Antoinette Nwandu and Directed by Simone Raquel Alexander, Pass Over is a charged piece of theater everyone needs to see. Remember South Africa in the 1980s and the…
Summer Youth Theatre at the Vortex
THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL The VORTEX’s award-winning Summer Youth Theatre presented the regional premiere of Thrive, Or What You Will, an epic play by LM Feldman and directed by…
EMMA: Love has its own agenda
The subtitle of my review headline is a line spoken by an old, old friend of Emma, who is the female lead of this Jane Austen-inspired comedy of matchmaking. While…