Criticism, Vitriol, and Announcing Our NewCrit Critics on HowlRound.com Polly Carl April 20, 2013 A couple of months ago we announced that we would add criticism to the HowlRound site. The idea met with both great enthusiasm and deep skepticism. We expected this. When we originally discussed this idea with a large group of advisors, … Continue reading »
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Spice Up the Night with Nina Katrina at Sammons Cabaret
Want to spice up your Sammons Cabaret Night with international flavor? Add Nina Katrina; tune up her accompanists, and feel Kurth Hall sizzle. This Thursday, April 18, is your chance to experience the unique styling and world-class repertoire of this Dallas-based international songbird. You don’t want to miss her. The eldest child born into a … Continue reading »
The Importance of Earnest Cooperation: Oscar Wilde in Oklahoma City
Imagine if Stephen Colbert wrote and directed a full satire episode of “Downton Abbey”. That’s what Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” feels like in Oklahoma City University’s accommodating thrust Burg Theatre space. A standout, signature co-production by Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (City REP), Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and OCU’s Theatre Department, it … Continue reading »
Light Illuminating Dark: A.L.Rowse and Shakespeare’s Dark Lady
Playwright William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Twenty-four of them address his passionate love for an un-named person known as “the dark lady”, someone he described as ‘a woman color’d ill’ with black eyes and dark, coarse hair. Speculation about her identity has raged across the centuries, with several historical women often debated as candidates. One … Continue reading »
Neither Virgin Nor Whore: WIT at Theatre Arlington
We need more plays like “W;t”, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer prize for Drama by Margaret Edson, about a professor of literature facing her impending death through the lens of her life’s embrace. Vivian is neither virgin nor whore. The only pedestal she stands on is one of her own making. She isn’t any version … Continue reading »
A Harry Tale of Lust, AIDS & Hope by John Michael
I have seen the Harry Penix, and I’ll never feel quite the same…about half-melted ice cream, or frosted cupcakes. That naughtiest of charming, shape-shifting sprites, John Michael, summons forth — from the dark bowels of 24 year old male reflection — a tale that’s part personal history, part AIDS awareness fantasy. And all sparkly, crinkly, … Continue reading »
Three-Cornered Theatre: Getting Earnest in OKC
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist Balance and harmony by design: consider the integrity of a three-legged stool. Each independent element shares equal weight-bearing support with the … Continue reading »
Moonrock Around the Clock! FunHouse Theatre’s Ultimate Easter Experience
Crawl out from under your school desks and emerge from your nuclear bomb shelters…hop on over to FunHouse Theatre’s “Ultimate Easter Experience” one mo’ time this Thursday night 3/28 before that wacky satellite of whimsical hilarity returns to its wobbly orbit around the moon. It’s the eagerly anticipated “prequel” to the award winning, world-famous (in … Continue reading »
Lynne Cadena at The Sammons: A Father’s Legacy of Song
SOLD OUT! Call The Sammons Center for standby ticket status….. “I want to bring a smile to your face, a tug at your heart, or maybe just a little peace to the end of your hectic day,” says Lynne Cadena, soulful songstress and pianist gracing The Sammons Center for the Arts Cabaret series this Thursday … Continue reading »
Rachel Corrie Murder Redux at Dallas’ Second Thought
“I know now she is a symbol to other people in the world…for what she stood for, and Gaza is still under siege … it’s very important her message can continue.” At the ten year rally in Olympia WA, marking Rachel Corrie’s brutal murder by an Israeli driving a bulldozer in Gaza, Cindy Corrie remarked … Continue reading »
