Kathleen Clark has had several plays produced by the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, starting back in 1986. Her 2003 play Secrets of a Soccer Mom is not one of them, for good reason. It’s a cliché and stereotype driven hodge-podge of superficiality, presenting three women’s attendance and participation in their children’s soccer game as … Continue reading
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A Commanding Voice: “My Tidy List of Terrors” by Jonathan Norton
How rewarding to watch a young playwright develop his voice, talent blossoming more lucidly with each new work that he produces. Dallas needs to sit up and take notice of one such talent in the expressive, perceptive Jonathan Norton and realize we knew him when, before he moves into the national spotlight he will surely … Continue reading
Almondine Antidote: Upstart’s Un-melancholy Play
Nothing melancholy about Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play. It’s mostly exuberant. Billed as a contemporary farce, this whimsical fairytale romance for adults with a hint of mystery rolls merrily along in dreamy absurd-ville. What a relief to realize it exhibits none of the pretentious gimmickry of Ruhl’s highly praised and uninteresting domestic device dramedy The Vibrator … Continue reading
WaterTower’s Anne Frank: Bearing Tolerance’s Torch
With all remaining performances of The Diary of Anne Frank completed sold-out, they have added a Sunday 1/29 show at 7:00 pm. All tickets are just $20 (no discounts/special offers/coupons permitted). Please call the box office today at 972-450-6232 or purchase online at http://www.watertowertheatre.org Attending a stage performance of The Diary of Anne … Continue reading
Stage West: Occupy New Jerusalem?
That radical Baruch de Spinoza, on trial at Stage West…. And now, from the brave folks who brought the Dallas-Fort Worth region Frayn’s Copenhagen and Mamet’s November, comes another spell-binding brain-teaser of theatrical invention: David Ives’ New Jerusalem. Deepest bows to Stage West in Fort Worth for continuing a tradition of producing plays that challenge … Continue reading
Greenpeace list of Non-GMO food companies
The Shoppers Guide! Worth printing before you hit Tom Thumb, Raley’s or Albertson’s! Greenpeace puts out list of Non-GMO food companies
A Joyful Noise: On & Off @ Theatre Arlington
Added Performance due to sell-out crowds: January 29, 6pm!!!!! “One day I must write a farce from behind,” exclaimed British playwright Michael Frayn in 1970, while watching a light comedy he wrote for Lynn Redgrave unfold from backstage, where “it was funnier.” In 1982 his celebrated farce Noises Off emerged, its title referring to offstage … Continue reading
The Frequency of Death: A Murderous Tune
Every January Kurt Kleinmann’s Pegasus Theatre “defies gravity” at the Eisemann Center by inaugurating the new year with an original play from its unique niche – the trademarked In Living Black & White production style. In 2012 Pegasus delights its established audiences and charms new ones with a revamped, refreshed version of a production drawn … Continue reading
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