Birthday Club
What do five women do when they get together for a birthday? If this play is any indication, they drink a lot and whine (pun) even more. Birthday Club is…
Drinking Habits: Lucifer’s Libation
What would result from a heady cocktail of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, Rocky Horror, and the TV show Laugh-In, most definitely not gently stirred? Answer is this play, Drinking Habits.…
Are You Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Probably not, but you should be. There is a famous jingle in Edward Albee’s play, which is also the title of his play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. It has…
Leading Ladies
Seven Shakespearean plays feature cross-dressing as a plot. Don’t tell that to the Lt. Gov. of Texas – he might start banning Shakespeare. Also on the ban list would surely…
Rocky Horror in Austin
Rocky is back! Rocky hit the film theatre in 1975, with Tim Curry in the lead role as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the blond Peter Hinwood as Rocky, Susan Sarandon…
It Will Help The Ages to Mourn
The title of this article are the words spoken by Antonio Salieri upon seeing Mozart’s last musical manuscript, Requiem. It was left unfinished at Mozart’s death in 1791, age only…
God of Carnage
If a guy says something you don’t like about a person you care for, throw a tantrum. Or better yet, slap him in the face! While the protagonists in the…
Don Toner Passes Baton at Austin Playhouse
While Don Toner is not retiring, there is a big change now underway at Austin Playhouse. The Catastrophist, a play that opened March 25, is Toner’s last under the title…
The Chocolate Factory
There has always been a misconception that fairy tales were written for children. As this musical production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory proves, that is not the case.…
The Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde, the wittiest playwright of all time, is just as relevant now as he was in the 1890s. Its initial reviews, in 1895, were mixed, but the greatest living…