Vincent: A Portrait of an Artist and his Brother in Turmoil
Vincent. Written by Leonard Nimoy, yes, that Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) of Star Trek fame! Before delving into the play and one of the most memorable performances I’ve seen in…
SEARED, not Pan-Fried!
Playwright Theresa Rebeck has cooked up a delicious play. Seared is a main course of drama, with a side dish of comedy. Even though you will not be dining at…
Feel my forehead: that’s my brain working!
The headline is a quote from a character in a play being staged in Austin this month. The brain has to do a lot of work to really understand it,…
Erma Bombeck: at wit’s end
How a Suburban Mom Transformed Boredom and Dread Written by Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, featuring Sarah Fleming Walker, the Austin Playhouse Associate Artistic Director, and central character who performed…
Flirt, fuck, is there so vast a difference?
That existential question, posed by John Updike in a letter to a woman who would become his wife, was written in 1974. It is, to put it bluntly, the animating…
Best Play of the Season in Austin:
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Roy Horniman could scarcely imagine that one of his books would be turned into a film and then a theatrical production. His novel,…
Take Care of My Friend
Director Elizabeth Newman of the Filigree Theatre strayed a bit from her previous repertoire with the world premiere of Take Care of My Friend. Starring Kathleen Fletcher, who wrote the…
Dear Evan Hansen Waves Pain Through a Window
Most theatregoers know the story of Dear Evan Hansen, as it was a tremendous success on Broadway for six years in a row and was also a film and a…
Others Were Here Beforehand: City Theatre Austin’s Men on Boats
There is a single line in Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats, now running at City Theatre Austin through April 12, that cuts through everything: the rapids, rhetoric, gender politics, and…
Witch — Bewitchingly Witty
I was fortunate to grab one of the remaining tickets for the closing night performance of Witch, at Hyde Park Theatre, a bewitchingly witty play directed superbly by Ken Webster…