When George Lucas filmed his original “Star Wars” in Tunisia and an English film studio in 1975 and 1976, the film went $3 million dollars over budget due to production difficulties and cast and crew believed the film would fail at the box office. It opened in limited engagement on May 25, 1977. Nobody saw … Continue reading
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Clowns Command with Charm in Cara Mia’s NUESTRA PASTORELA
Guest review by Dr. Darise Eror In the Medieval era, clergymen faced the challenge of keeping the sacred embedded and relevant in the lives of a burgeoning middle class. Their answer? Make it funny! Thus emerged the Morality and Mystery Pageant plays, which blended the sacred with the profane in absorbing, anachronism-riddled theatre. Co-writers Jeffry … Continue reading
Undeterred: DEFERRED ACTION by Cara Mia Theatre Co & Dallas Theater Center
Most of this feature/review ran in American Theatre Magazine online May 3, 2016. Audience response to David Lozano’s and Lee Trull’s Deferred Action, playing through May 14 at Dallas’ Wyly Theatre, a co-production between Cara Mia Theatre Co and Dallas Theater Center: “It was infuriating. I want simple answers and my beliefs reinforced, the way … Continue reading
Criticalrant’s Final “First Choices” of 2015
2015 unfolded as a stunner of a thespian year, from classics to new work, dynamic paradigm-shifters to re-invigorated audience favorites, ensemble achievements to compelling solo work. Youth to senior artists. And music? Glorious music! Performance art in our region thrives with energy, respect, initiative and genuine variety. Dedicated, impassioned creative people form the backbone … Continue reading
Tragedy of Convention: Cara Mia Theatre’s BLOOD WEDDING, Human Enough
Federico Garcia Lorca. Blood Wedding. Cara Mia Theatre Company. Duty v. Desire. Moments of breath-taking beauty implode into explosions of anguished desolation throughout the tragedy, burning deep into the senses of those who attend this morality masque, a ritualized soul cleansing with proto-feminist overtones. Through December 13 at Dallas’ Latino Cultural Center. An internationally recognized … Continue reading
A Charmed Actor’s Life: Denton’s Caroline Dubberly
It seems like 24-year-old Denton resident Caroline Dubberly leads a charmed life as an actor. She’s popular, respected and sought after, across the DFW region. She got invited to perform in a major professional stage show touring the US for a year while still a college undergraduate. She will graduate from University of North Texas … Continue reading
Luminosity in blu: Cara Mia Theatre Company Illuminated
The Cambridge English dictionary defines luminosity as the total amount of energy produced by a star in one second. Another source describes it as the rate at which a star radiates energy in all directions. As soon as the lights come up on Cara Mia Theatre Co.’s production blu, by Virginia Grise, running through October … Continue reading
Best on the Boards: DFW Theatre Critics Forum 2015
Another year of outstanding D/FW thespian endeavor rolls by. Herein I post the decisions arrived at by the Dallas-Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum after three hours of deliberation, negotiation, advocacy and munching David Novinski’s delicious gluten-free brownies to finish our potluck meal at Martha’s. I’m stoked by the diversity and quality of performance art in … Continue reading
The Gods Must Be Sandy: TEOTL at Cara Mia/Prism Co.
Who or what is a teotl? I’m not versed in Aztec myth. Wikipedia, that shaky source of sometimes-correct information, defines it as a “Nahuatl term, a central idea of Aztec religion, often translated as “god”, maybe possessing “more abstract aspects of the numinous or divine.” And who or what are Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca? Going back … Continue reading
Diverse, Dynamic, Dramatic Dallas Welcomes the TCG Conference
“It’s death by art,” she grins, ruefully. Referring to her killer arts schedule as Kitchen Dog Theater’s Co-Artistic Director, Tina Parker welcomes Theatre Communications Group’s annual national conference descending this week on Dallas TX in stride. Multi-tasking? No problemo for this canny, creative, ‘wondrous’ woman…. She just opened two major productions at her unique theatre … Continue reading
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